Financial Concepts
This metric discounts future cash flows to today using the firm’s cost of capital.
What is Net Present Value?
This financial statement shows a company’s assets, liabilities, and equity at a single point in time.
Analysts coined this "Magnificent" nickname for the 7 tech stocks that dominated the S&P 500 returns.
What is the Magnificent 7?
This ancient Egyptian queen was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom and had a famous relationship with Marc Antony.
Who is Cleopatra?
This color is created by mixing blue and red.
What is purple?
This Greek letter measures a stock's sensitivity to systemic market movements.
What is beta?
This 2001 corporate scandal led to the collapse of a major energy company and the creation of SOX.
What is Enron?
This central bank sets U.S. monetary policy and adjusts the federal funds rate.
What is the Federal Reserve?
This treaty officially ended World War I in 1919.
What is Treaty of Versailles?
He is the legendary value investor and "Oracle of Omaha" who celebrated his 95th birthday in 2025.
Who is Warren Buffet?
This ratio, used to evaluate a company's liquidity, is calculated by dividing Current Assets by Current Liabilities.
What is the current ratio?
This capital budgeting metric measures how long it takes for a project to recover its initial investment.
What is the payback period?
In 2023, this bank collapse became the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history.
What is Silicon Valley Bank?
This 1986 nuclear disaster occurred in present-day Ukraine.
What is Chernobyl disaster?
This element has the chemical symbol “Ag.”
What is Silver?
This model estimates expected return using beta, the risk‑free rate, and the market risk premium.
What is CAPM?
This term describes when a government reaches its legal borrowing limit and must rely on extraordinary measures.
What is debt ceiling?
In early 2026, the U.S. Treasury saw a massive surge in "T-Bill" demand following the passage of the One Big Beautiful Act.
What are Treasury Bills?
This 17th-century Dutch "mania" is often cited as the first recorded speculative bubble.
What is Tulip Mania?
What city was the 2010 winter olympics in?
What is Vancouver, B.C.?
An option that gives the holder the right, but not the obligation, to sell an asset at a specified price.
What is a put option?
This valuation method discounts a company’s projected free cash flows to present value.
What is Discounted Cash Flow Analysis?
In early 2026, the U.S. national debt reached a new psychological milestone of this many "Trillions" of dollars.
What is 36 trillion?
This 1215 document limited the power of the English monarchy.
What is the magna carta?
In the medical world, the acronym "MRI" stands for this type of diagnostic imaging.
What is Magnetic Resonance Imaging?