HISTORY
The father of capitalism/economics
Who is Adam Smith
A corporate strategy where one company purchases another company to assume control of its operations and assets.
What is M&A (Mergers & Acquisitons)
This is a unique short code of letters or numbers used to identify a specific publicly traded company or security on a stock exchange.
What is a Ticker Symbol
The formula to calculate profit
What is Total Revenue - Total Costs
This company had the highest-priced IPO in history.
What is SpaceX
In 2008, the collapse of this global financial services firm triggered the worst of the subprime mortgage crisis.
What is The Lehman Brothers
The financial metric that measures the profitability or efficiency of an investment relative to its cost.
What is ROI (Return on Investment)
Shares of massive, nationally recognized, financially stable companies with a history of reliable performance. Some examples include Microsoft or Walmart.
What are Blue-Chip Stocks
A market strucutre where a single seller/company is the sole provider of a certain product and controls the entire industry with no close competition
What is a Monoploy
This company’s shares surged toward a near-$700 price point after launching its new autonomous AI agent, Muse, in Sep 2026.
What is Meta
This landmark federal act was the first in the US law passed to protect free-market trade and illegalize monopolies
This is business strategy involves a company expanding its control into multiple stages of its supply chain, such as a manufacturer buying its raw material supplier.
What is Vertical Integration
These bonds are widely considered one of the safest investments in the world because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.
What is a Treasury Bond
The extra output generated by adding one additional unit of an input, such as hiring one more worker.
What is Marginal Product
In Oct 2026 which two major Hollywood studios officially finalized a historic $111 billion mega-merger?
What are Warner Bros and Paramount
This English economist argued that government spending could stimulate demand and pull an economy out of a slump.
Who is John Maynard Keynes
This is a financial valuation method used to estimate the value of an investment or company using its projected future cash flows.
What is DCF (Discounted Cash Flow)
A decrease in the market price or total monetary value of an asset over time is called this.
What is Depreciation
The value of the next-best alternative that is given up when making a choice.
Fuel costs and pump prices soared globally in late 2026 due to supply bottlenecks in this critical shipping strait.
This 1944 international agreement established the IMF and the World Bank, pegging global currencies to the U.S. dollar.
What is the Bretton Woods Conference
This corporate finance strategy uses a high amount of borrowed money (debt) to fund a company or business purchase.
What is Leverage
This financial contract gives you the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell an asset at a set price before a specific date.
What is an Option
What term refers to the point where a business's total revenues equal its total expenses, resulting in zero profit or loss.
What is the Break-Even Point
In Sep 2026, this 96-year-old investing icon, often referred to as the “Oracle of Omaha,” officially stepped-down as chairman, naming his son as his successor, ending a historic 56-year run at the helm of the trillion-dollar conglomerate.
Who is Warren Buffet