Stocks
What is a stock?
What is a small partial ownership of a company?
What is money?
Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts
What is insurance?
What is a contract in which an individual or entity pays an insurance company in exchange for financial reimbursement or protection in the case of an emergency.
What is the primary reason to invest?
To make money.
Give an example of something you shouldn't do to get ready to invest.
Anything but research
Are stocks usually considered high or low risk investments?
What is high?
What determines the value of money?
What are prices?
What is a mutual fund?
A managed fund that pools money from shareholders to invest in securities.
Why, for some people, may it not be smart for them to invest?
Because you may lose money.
What is easier to predict, long or short term trends for investments?
Long
What is an example of a generally safe stock
Tesla
Amazon
Apple
So many examples... most large corporations
Every year does money lose or gain value?
What is lose?
What is a Certificate of Deposit?
A product offered by banks and credit unions that provides an interest rate premium in exchange for the promise that customers will leave the sum of money untouched for a set period of time
As much as you are comfortable losing.
Are we currently as of March 2023 in a recession or an upswing?
What is an upswing?
What are three things you want to look at when buying a stock?
Past Trends
Company's revenue
Company's expenses
News surrounding the company
Would you consider this company ethical?
Is the stock stable?
Is it currently going down or up?
Why don't we just print more money?
Because then the value of money would decrease
What is a savings bond?
A non marketable, interesting bearing U.S. government bond that earns a combined fixed interest rate and variable inflation rate.
Why is investing the most efficient way to make money?
Because you have to do practically nothing! You're money will do most of the work for you.
What is the stock market?
A set of exchanges and other venues where shares of publicly held companies are bought and sold
What are the two types of stocks?
What are growth and income stocks?
Who in the U.S. is tasked with controlling the value and flow of money?
What is the Federal Reserve?
What is a savings account?
An interest bearing deposit held at a bank or credit union.
Why is it super important for you to try and invest now?
Because you are super young and most likely don't have very many personal expenses so you have lots of time and little need for money.
What is the most important thing to do when getting ready to invest?
RESEARCH