Money Talks
This three-digit number shows how trustworthy you are to lenders and affects your ability to get loans and credit cards.
What is a credit score?
This company, known for the iPhone, is one of the most valuable companies in the world.
What is Apple?
This type of loan is commonly used by students to pay for college and must be paid back after graduation.
What is a student loan?
This billionaire rapper founded Roc Nation and was one of the first hip-hop artists to reach billionaire status.
Who is Jay-Z?
This country uses the yen as its official currency.
What is Japan?
This is the extra money you pay when you borrow money, usually shown as a percentage.
What is interest?
A “bull market” refers to a market where prices are generally doing this.
What is going up (increasing)?
This is a plan for how you spend and save your money each month, especially important for college students.
What is a budget?
This athlete’s lifetime deal with Nike led to one of the most successful sneaker lines of all time, generating billions in revenue.
Who is Michael Jordan?
This country has the largest economy in the world by GDP.
What is the United States?
This type of account typically earns more interest than a checking account and is used to store money, not spend it daily.
What is a savings account?
This is the term for owning a small piece of a company when you buy shares.
What is a stock?
This is what happens when you keep spending money you don’t have and your bank account goes below zero.
What is overdrafting?
This celebrity’s cosmetics brand, Kylie Cosmetics, helped her become one of the youngest self-made billionaires.
Who is Kylie Jenner?
This fast-growing cryptocurrency, created in 2009, operates without a central bank and is often called “digital gold.”
What is Bitcoin?
This is the term for spending money you don’t have yet, often using a credit card.
What is debt?
This major U.S. stock index tracks 500 of the largest companies and is often used to measure the overall market.
What is the S&P 500?
This type of fund is money set aside specifically for unexpected expenses like car repairs or medical bills.
What is an emergency fund?
This artist became the first to have a song reach 1 billion streams on Spotify and has major equity deals with brands like Puma.
Who is Rihanna?
This term describes when prices rise so quickly in a country that money rapidly loses its value, like in Zimbabwe or Venezuela.
What is hyperinflation?
This financial strategy involves spreading your money across different investments to reduce risk.
What is diversification?
This is the term for when investors expect the market to fall and may try to profit from declining prices.
What is a bear market? (Short selling is acceptable)
This is the reduction of loan principal over time through regular payments of both interest and principal.
What is amortization?
This company owns both Ticketmaster and Live Nation, giving it major control over concert ticketing and live events globally.
What is Live Nation Entertainment?
This country prints the most U.S. currency bills, even though it is not the United States.
What is none (the U.S. prints its own money)