Personal Finance
Money Matters
Big Ideas
World at Large
Grab Bag
100

income+assets+capital

What is wealth?

100

An agreement to receive goods or services now, and pay later.

What is credit?

100

Money collected by the government to fund public services.

What are taxes?

100

A place where buyers and sellers can exchange goods and services.

What is a market?

100

Money that you get on a regular basis

What is income?

200

Stocks, real estate, and cars are all examples of these

What are assets?

200

A financial gain from producing or selling something.

What is profit?

200

The most common way of measuring how strong a country's economy is.

What is the Gross Domestic Product?

200

That rate at which goods and services are created.

What is productivity?

200

President Trump instituted many of these shortly after he took office in 2025.

What is a tariff?

300

When you have the resources to start business or make a big purchase

What is financial capital?

300

A tax imposed by the government on foreign goods.

What is a tariff?

300

When prices rise and the value of currency can't keep up.

What is inflation?

300

How much of a product or service is desired by buyers.

What is demand?

300

When the demand for an item is greater than the existing supply.

What is scarcity?

400

This term is used to describe a type of debt-based payment style

What is "buy now, pay later?"

400

An idea that expresses the interdependence of many economies.

What is globalization?

400

A fraction of a company that can be bought and sold on a public market.

What is a stock?

400

The fact that you're watching content made in Japan, wearing a shirt made in Bangladesh, and eating Thai food for lunch shows this concept in action.

What is globalization?

400

A number monitored by the federal government that one of several indicators of the economy's health.

What is the unemployment rate?