Investments
This is what you own when you purchase a small piece of a company.
What is stock?
What is the time in life when many people stop working?
What is retirement?
What is money paid to the government to fund public services?
What are taxes?
What do we call the study of how people use limited resources?
What is economics?
Your friend asks to borrow $10 and promises to pay you back $12. What is the extra $2?
What is interest?
This investment represents a loan you make to a government or company.
What is a bond?
What is a common retirement account offered by employers?
What is a 401(k)?
What tax is taken from the money you earn from working?
What is income tax?
What happens when the prices of goods and services increase over time?
What is inflation?
You buy a pair of shoes for $50 and sell them for $80. How much money did you make before other costs?
What is $30?
Spreading your money across different investments to reduce risk is called this.
What is diversification?
What is money you save now to use when you retire?
What are retirement savings?
What is the amount of money you earn before taxes?
What is gross income?
What do we call the amount of a product that is available for people to buy?
What is supply?
Your school cafeteria has 100 slices of pizza, but 300 students want one. What do we have?
What is high demand?
This measures how much an investment has gained or lost compared with what you originally put in.
What is return on investment (ROI)?
What government program can provide income to retirees?
What is Social Security?
What is the money you have left after taxes and other deductions?
What is net income?
What do we call how much people want to buy a product?
What is demand?
If everyone suddenly stopped buying concert tickets, what would likely happen to ticket prices?
What is they would likely decrease?
This type of fund automatically invests across many companies and is designed to track a market index, such as the S&P 500.
What is an index fund?
What happens to money when it earns interest on both the original money and previous interest?
What is compound interest?
What document do most Americans file each year to report their income to the federal government?
What is a tax return?
What is the total value of goods and services produced by a country in a year?
What is GDP?
You save $100 in a bank account and it slowly grows without you adding more money. What is your money doing?
What is earning interest?