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This electric vehicle company faced stock drops in 2024 after slowing global demand and rising competition
What is Tesla?
This metric is calculated as current assets minus current liabilities.
What is working capital?
In The Wolf of Wall Street, Leonardo DiCaprio plays this real-life stock scammer.
Who is Jordan Belfort?
This stock market crash in 1929 triggered the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday?
This investing strategy involves spreading your money across different assets like stocks, bonds, and real estate to reduce risk.
What is diversification?
In early 2025, this central bank signaled a potential shift in interest rate policy after inflation began cooling.
What is the Federal Reserve?
This acronym stands for a profitability metric often used to assess a company's operating performance by excluding the effects of financing and accounting decisions like interest, taxes, and depreciation.
What is EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization)?
This 2015 film used celebrities and fourth-wall breaks to explain the 2008 financial crisis.
What is The Big Short?
This U.S. president created the New Deal in the 1930s to combat the effects of the Great Depression through government programs and financial reforms.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This government agency regulates U.S. securities markets and aims to protect investors by enforcing laws against market manipulation.
What is the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)?
This country’s economy entered a recession in 2024 after years of real estate debt concerns and youth unemployment.
What is China?
This ratio measures a company’s profitability relative to its shareholders’ equity.
What is Return on Equity (ROE)?
This 2021 meme stock frenzy saw retail traders on Reddit’s r/WallStreetBets drive up the stock price of this video game retailer.
What is GameStop?
In 1987, the Dow Jones dropped 22.6% in a single day — the largest one-day percentage drop in history. This event is known as ____.
What is Black Monday?
A bear market is typically defined as a drop of at least this percentage from recent highs in the stock market.
What is 20%?
In 2025, this U.S. tech giant faced antitrust lawsuits from the Department of Justice over its dominance in search and ad markets.
What is Google (Alphabet)?
This ratio, calculated as net income divided by revenue, reflects how much profit a company makes per dollar of sales.
What is Net Profit Margin?
This HBO series, which ended in 2023, followed the power struggles of the ultra-wealthy Roy family as they battled for control of a global media conglomerate, drawing parallels to real-life corporate empires like Fox and AT&T.
What is Succession?
This 1970s economic phenomenon combined high inflation and stagnant growth — a rare and troubling mix.
What is stagflation?
This is Warren Buffett’s famous advice: “Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are ____.”
What is fearful?
In 2025, this fast-growing U.S. retailer filed for bankruptcy amid mounting debt and a failed e-commerce expansion, marking one of the biggest retail collapses since Bed Bath & Beyond.
What is Joann Fabrics?
This term describes a situation when a company is financed more by debt than by equity.
What is Leverage?
This now-jailed entrepreneur promised to revolutionize blood testing and inspired multiple TV shows and documentaries.
Who is Elizabeth Holmes?
This massive Ponzi scheme, revealed in 2008, defrauded investors of an estimated $65 billion and was run by a former NASDAQ chairman.
Who is Bernie Madoff?
This contrarian investing strategy involves buying stocks during market downturns when others are fearful, betting on long-term value.
What is value investing?
(Also acceptable: contrarian investing)