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Protecting Consumers
Stocks
Real Estate & Other Investment Options
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100
An order to take back and repair or replace a product that has defective parts.
What is Recall?
100
An organized market for buying and selling financial securities.
What is a stock exchange?
100
Property used to generate income.
What is an income property?
100
Indicates the level of quality of food.
What is a grade label?
200
A federal government agency that oversees the safety of products such as toys, cribs, power tools, and furniture.
What is Consumer Product Safety Commission?
200
A share of ownership in a corporation.
What are stocks?
200
Property in which an individual or family lives.
What is a residential property?
200
Profit made from the sale of a financial asset such as stock or a bond.
What is capital gain?
300
A non-profit organization that collects information on local businesses and handles complaints.
What is Better Business Bureau?
300
A share of profit given to stockholders
What are dividends?
300
The value of a piece of property less the amount still owed on the money borrowed to purchase it.
What is equity?
300
Regulates the labeling and safety of food, drugs, cosmetics, dietary supplements, and medical devices sold in the US.
What is the Food and Drug Administration?
400
A department that inspects food and grades them.
What is US Department of Agriculture?
400
How easily an investment can be turned into cash.
What is liquidity?
400
Vary investments in order to spread risk or to expand.
What is diversifying?
400
Unused land intended only for investment purposes.
What is an undeveloped property?
500
Group and individuals that work to protect, inform, and defend consumers.
What is Consumer Advocates?
500
A fund created by an investment firm that raises money from many stockholders and invests it in a variety of stocks or other investments.
What are mutual funds?
500
Items that are traded, especially unprocessed materials such as oil, food grains, and metals.
What are commodities?
500
Enforces federal anti-trust and consumer protection laws by investigating complaints against companies.
What is the Federal Trade Commission?