Federal Reserve
Fortune 500
Economic Terms
Prominent ECNY Members
Cryptocurrency
100

On December 23, 1913, this individual signed the Federal Reserve Act into law.

Who is President Woodrow Wilson?

100

Of the fortune 500 companies headquartered in NYC, this is the largest by revenue (2022).

What is JP Morgan Chase?

100

This is the change in the cost of goods and services but does not include those from the food and energy sectors.

What is Core Inflation?  

100

This prominent ECNY member served as the 56th Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977 and has been a major influence in the shaping of U.S. international policy up through today.

Who is Henry Kissinger?

100

This was the first exchange to offer trading of Bitcoin futures, though it later dropped the offering.

What is CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange)?

200

This is the most common bill of U.S. currency in circulation worldwide (by number, not by value).

What is the $100 bill?

200

When it was established in 1908, this company led the Fortune 500 rankings with an annual profit of $806M, sailing past the second position by $221.2M.

What is General Motors?

200

This means your dollar today is worth more than your dollar tomorrow.

What is the Time Value of Money?

200

This ECNY Trustee is the author of four New York Times bestselling books, including their newest book "How Boards Work - And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World."

Who is Dambisa Moyo?

200

This is the word for 1 trillion hashes.

What is a terahash?

300

After the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, the Federal Reserve created this new program where depository institutions can borrow from the Fed, with collateral valued at face value.

What is the Bank Term Funding Program?

300

This person was the first black CEO of a Fortune 500 company.

Who is Dr. Clifton R. Wharton, Jr.? (Became Chairman and CEO of TIAA-CREF in 1987)

300

This historical event led to the creation of the field of macroeconomics.

What was the Great Depression?

300

This ECNY Trustee served as the chair of the Council of Economic Advisors under George W. Bush, but is better known to college economic students as the author of the famous Principles of Economics and Intermediate-Level Macroeconomics.

Who is N. Gregory Mankiw?

300

This is the number of satoshis, or "sats," in one Bitcoin.

What is 100 million?

400

This independent agency funded by the Federal Reserve System was authorized in 2010 by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

What is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)?

400

This is the oldest company on the Fortune 500 list in 2022.

What is Bank of New York Mellon?

400

Milton Friedman argued this group of people were a firm’s sole responsibility.

Who are shareholders?

400

This ECNY Board Executive Committee Member and prominent economist is known to be a video gaming enthusiast in his/her spare time.

Who is John Williams?

400

This is a service that hides the origin of crypto coins.

What is a cryptocurrency tumbler?

500

This Fed Chair taught him/herself calculus in high school and also achieved a near-perfect SAT score of 1590.

Who is Ben Bernanke?

500

This state has the most Fortune 500 company headquarters in 2022.

What is Texas?

500

The colorful name that John Maynard Keynes gave to confidence or "naive optimism," one of the essential ingredients of economic prosperity.

What is Animal Spirits?

500

In 1989, this ECNY Trustee became Morgan Stanley's first African-American Managing Director.

Who was Bill Lewis?

500

Mining this cryptocurrency uses more electricity than Norway.

What is Bitcoin?