The minimum rate the Fed sets for banks to lend and borrow from other banks.
What is the discount rate?
100
The type of unemployment that occurs as a result of a mismatch between skills potential workers have and the skills an employer is looking for.
What is structural unemployment?
100
An increase in the overall price level at a decreasing rate.
What is disinflation?
100
The difference between Treasury securities and TIPS which gives investor expectations of inflation.
What is the Breakeven Rate?
100
These countries were considered economically weaker following the European Debt Crisis and are commonly referred to by a popular acronym.
What are Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain? (PIIGS)
200
An unconventional monetary policy tool the Fed uses to communicate the future path of the Federal Funds Rate.
What is Forward Guidance?
200
The number of unemployed plus employed, divided by the civilian population over 16, non-institutionalized.
What is the labor force participation rate?
200
The process or practice of reducing the level of one's debt by selling one's assets or paying it off with income.
What is deleveraging?
200
An institution that usually holds over $50 billion in assets but is strongly interconnected to the financial system and therefore, may experience moral hazard.
What is a Systemically Important Financial Institution? (SIFI)
200
This country has the largest foreign holdings of US Treasuries.
What is China?
300
A measure of the money supply that includes cash and checking deposits as well as savings deposits, money market mutual funds and other time deposits
What is M2?
300
New unemployment claims that are compiled weekly to show the number of individuals who filed for unemployment insurance for the first time.
What are Jobless Claims?
300
A home purchase loan with a higher balance than the free-market value of the home.
What is an underwater mortgage?
300
Through this financial instrument, we can anticipate most investors expect a Fed rate hike to initially occur in March 2016.
What are Federal Funds Futures?
300
This country recently became the fastest growing economy (Q4 of 2014) in the world among large, but not necessarily developed economies, however the Central Bank recently cut interest rates to stimulate growth.
What is India?
400
Janet Yellen's middle name.
What is Louise?
400
This indicator currently sits at 10.6% and includes marginally attached and those who are PTER.
What is the U6?
400
This helps to set benchmarks for how much debt may be issued to a person, the terms of the loans, how much debt a specific company is willing to issue, and what interest rates will be charged.
What are underwriting standards?
400
Money in the banking system that is briefly counted twice due to delays in processing checks.
What is float?
400
The types of stimulus in Shinzo Abe's three arrows or Abenomics.
What is fiscal stimulus, monetary easing and structural reforms?
500
The first Governor of the New York Federal Reserve (Presidents were referred to as Governors before the Banking Act of 1935), who was considered stronger than the Chair and one of the most important people in shaping U.S. Monetary Policy.
Who is Benjamin Strong?
500
An indicator that is the product of the National Compensation Survey, it measures employer costs for wages, salaries, and employee benefits for nonfarm private and state and
local government workers.
What is the Employers Cost for Employee Compensation? (ECEC)
500
A measure that reports what Americans estimate the amount of money they spent "yesterday" was, excluding the purchase of a home, an automobile or normal household bills.
What is the Gallup Consumer Spending Measure?
500
An acronym that tells the approximate measure of a company's operating cash flow based on data from the company's income statement.
What is the EBITDA?
500
This central bank cut rates below zero, equaling a negative interest rate.
What is the Riksbank? (Other acceptable responses: Denmark Central Bank, Swiss National Bank & the ECB)