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☆☆☆☆☆The basing of a currency on gold. In some sense in such a system, gold IS the currency and money is a symbol for a corresponding amount of gold, backed by the issuer - i.e. the bank promises that by some means you are always able to exchange X of its currency for Y gold, and vice versa.
No country still uses the gold standard - modern currencies are free floating with their value determined by local markets and exchange rates with other currencies.
Even so, national governments still usually carry large gold reserves as a holdover from the time when they needed them as a physical guarantee. Gold has remained valuable over thousands of years so it can always be sold as needed for any currency (including its own) that a country might need, or bought to safely store wealth.
A currency system in which each dollar is worth 1/20 of an ounce of gold (gradpoint)
Standard and Poors is one of the 3 premier Credit Rating Agencies in the world.
A stock portfolio is all the stocks that you own. I would venture to say that if you had one stock in any company, you would have one stock in your portfolio. If you had 5 different stocks, you would have a total of 5 stocks in your portfolio.
to many to count... 100 dimes 1 quarter. 41 quarters. 50 dimes 21 quarters
First bank of the united states. He was the first Secretary of the Treasury.
...inflation
the company invests money collected from employers
households, individuals, and businesses
commodity money
bonds
Old age survivors and disability insurance (oasdi) social security benefits and medicare insurance .
yield
representive money.
It is a way for investors to avoid paying a future higher price of a stock.
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face value
Capital markets
mutual fund
$150. 5% interest per $1000 is $50 per year. You had the loan 3 years- $50 x 3.
A financial intermediary is a financial institution that connects surplus and deficit agents. There are three major reasons one might need a financial intermediary these include maturity transformation, risk transformation, and convenience denomination.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was created in 1909.
