Stocks & Finance
Business
Unemployment
Taxes
Jargons
100
Ownership of a corporation which is represented by shares which represent a piece of the corporation's assets and earnings.
What is stock?
100
A company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity.
What is corporation?
100
The monetary amount paid to an unemployed or partially unemployed worker.
What is benefits?
100
A tax collected by all retailers and certain service providers when they make taxable retail sales.
What is sales tax?
100
Someone who purchases a good or something for their own personal use.
What is consumer?
200
Income before expenses.
What is gross income?
200
A person who conducts analysis on companies and makes buy and sell recommendations on their stocks.
What is analyst?
200
A new claim is the first claim filed to request a determination of entitlement and eligibility for compensation.
What is claim?
200
A tax assessed on real estate by the local government.
What is property tax?
200
Things that have earning power or some other value to their owner.
What is assets?
300
Wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization for a particular purpose such as starting a company or investing
What is capital?
300
Where a debtor surrenders his/her assets and is relieved of the future obligation to repay his/her unsecured debts.
What is bankruptcy?
300
Any week in which you perform no services and receive no wages, or work less than full-time and wages payable for that week are less than your weekly benefit amount.
What is unemployed?
300
Tax levied directly on personal income.
What is income tax?
300
Relating to economic or budgetary matters.
What is fiscal?
400
The fee charged for using another's money or credit.
What is interest?
400
A loan obtained through the conveyance of property as security.
What is mortgage?
400
An amount of benefits paid to an individual to which the individual is not legally entitled.
What is overpayment?
400
True or False: Donating to charities gives you tax deduction.
What is true?
400
An excess of liabilities over assets.
What is deficit?
500
Most often set up as private investment partnerships that are open to a limited number of investors and require a very large initial minimum investment.
What is hedge fund?
500
The fee paid to a broker or sales to execute a trade, based on number of shares, bonds, options and/or their dollar value.
What is commission?
500
True or False: The unemployment rate was at its highest in October 2009 during the past decade.
What is true?
500
This bureau in charge of handling taxes.
What is IRS?
500
The branch of economics concerned with individual decision units.
What is microeconomics?