Ascent of Money
Lesson 2 & 4
Lesson 5
Lesson 6 & 8
Lesson 7
100

This European country is where bonds were born

What is Italy?

100

Money charged on interest

What is compound interest?

100

Any money made from working, government assistance, child support, alimony, disability, social security, etc.

What is income?

100

What a bank CD stands for

What is a Certificate of Deposit

100

The once-a-year fee that some credit cards charge

What is an annual fee?
200

This Jewish family has cornered the bond market since the early 1800's

Who are the Rothschildes

200

Three financial services learned in Lesson 2

What are (3 of these): Checking, Savings, ATM/Debit, Loans, CDs, MMKTs, Credit Cards, Mutual Funds and/or Securities?

200

An expense that doesn't change month to month

What is a fixed expense?

200

A method of raising capital through the sale of bonds, bills, or notes

What is debt financing?

200

The failure of a borrower to repay the loan

What is default?

300

This port city of the Confederacy was taken by the Union and made it nearly impossible to export cotton

What is New Orleans?
300

Anything that you own with value

What is an asset?

300

Money left over after paying all of your bills

What is discretionary income?

300

The act of one corporation acquiring another by purchasing its shares or by purchasing its assets

What is an acquisition?


300

The cost of borrowing money, expressed as a percentage

What is interest rate?

400

The country we learned about on Ascent of Money that was at the forefront of the 1989 bond crisis

What is Argentina?

400

Interest charged on principal

What is simple interest?

400

Any bill that changes in amount from month to month

What is a variable expense?

400

A loan or offer of money to a business in order to save it from bankruptcy; a financial rescue

What is a bailout?

400

An interest rate that goes up or down depending on the market rate

What is a variable rate?

500

The major battle that the Duke of Wellington launched against Napolean

What is Waterloo

500

Anything you owe to others; A debt

What is a liability?

500

Money spent over what you earned is called...

What is a deficit?

500

The combining of two or more companies into one larger company

What is a merger?

500

A loan used to purchase a home. The property is used as security.

What is a mortgage?