Federal Reserve
He is the current Federal Reserve Chairman.
Who is Jerome Powell?
The short term investment that can be described as the risk-free rate.
What is a US Treasury bill?
This is the New Mexico state motto.
What is "It grows as it goes"?
This company went from a 'valuation' of $47B to $5B this year, forcing it to cancel its scheduled initial public offering.
What is WeWork?
When represented in percentage terms, this is the aggregate growth rate of an economy, currently 1.9% for the US and calculated as:
Consumption + Business Investment + Government Spending + Net Exports
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
She is the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve.
Who is Janet Yellen?
A security whose coupon is tied to fluctuations in a short term reference rate.
What is a floating/variable rate note?
He is the current New Mexico State Treasurer.
Who is Tim Eichenberg?
The first space-tourism business to go public, now trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
What is Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc?
This index recently fell below 50%, indicating contractionary industrial output.
What is the ISM Manufacturing Index?
The two main drivers of Federal Reserve monetary policy.
What are inflation and employment?
This abbreviates the "London Interbank Offered Rate", a commonly used reference rate for bank loans.
What is LIBOR?
The year that New Mexico became a state.
What is 1912?
The number of 0.25% interest rate cuts implemented by the Fed year to date.
What is three?
When this 'inverts,' it has usually been followed by an economic recession (Hint: it occurred in late August).
What is the yield curve?
The commodity housed in the NY Federal Reserve building.
What is GOLD?
The most attractive short term liquidity investment offered to local governments in New Mexico
What is the NM Local Government Investment Pool?
These are the top three industries in New Mexico.
What are oil and gas, aerospace and defense, and tourism?
This company went public this year with a "meat alternative," and the share price skyrocketed from $25 per share to $235 per share in the first six months of its listing.
What is Beyond Meat?
This key indicator of labor market health is currently 3.6%, at a 50 year low.
What is the unemployment rate?
The person responsible for appointing the Federal Reserve Chairman.
Who is the President?
The two government sponsored enterprises, currently under conservatorship, that play key roles in the US housing market by purchasing and securitizing mortgages.
What are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
The name of the site where the first atomic bomb was tested in the US.
What is Trinity?
This company has recently been the subject of congressional hearings.
TRICK QUESTION!
What is Facebook OR Boeing?
The Federal Reserve's most closely watched inflation indicator.
What is the Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) Core Deflator?