Personal finance : an encyclopedia of modern money management /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Santa Barbara, California :
Greenwood,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Accountant
- Affordable Care Act
- Alimony
- Annuity
- Asset allocation
- Banking
- Bankruptcy
- Behavioral finance
- Bonds
- Budget
- Capital gains and capital losses
- Capitalism
- Cash
- Certificate of deposit
- Checking account
- Commodities
- Compound interest/return
- Condominium
- Consumer credit/debt
- Credit card
- Credit (or bond) rating agency
- Credit report and reporting agencies
- Credit score
- Credit union
- Currency
- Debt
- Debt collection
- Debt/credit counseling
- Deficit
- Deflation
- Delinquency
- Derivatives
- Digital currency
- Disability insurance
- Discount rate
- Dividend income
- Estate planning
- Federal Reserve Bank
- Financial advisor
- Flexible saving account
- Gross domestic product (GDP) and gross national product (GNP)
- Health insurance
- Hedge funds
- Homeowner's and renter's insurance
- Human capital
- Identity theft
- Index mutual funds
- Inflation
- Inflation-protected investments
- Interest income and payments
- Interest rates
- Investing
- Liabilities
- Life insurance
- Liquidity
- Loans
- Margin
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Money market account
- Mortgage
- Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs)
- Net worth
- Online personal finance
- Opportunity cost
- Pension plans
- Portfolio management
- Power of attorney
- Probate
- Real estate
- Real estate investment trust (REIT)
- Rent to own
- Retirement
- Retirement accounts
- Risk
- Risk premium
- Savings account
- Social lending or peer-to-peer lending
- Social Security
- Stock market
- Stocks
- Systematic market risk
- Tax deferral
- Tax return, federal
- Time value of money
- Treasury securities
- Umbrella insurance
- Unemployment
- U.S. federal tax system overview
- Wills and trusts
- Year 1930s : The Great Depression
- Year 1994 : creation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank at the Bretton Woods International Conference
- Year 1970s to 1980s : economic problems and the United States
- Year 1987 : stock market crash
- Year 1989-1991 : US. savings and loan crisis
- Year 1994 : North American Free Trade Agreement between Mexico, Canada, and the United States (NAFTA)
- Year 1997-1998 : Asian financial crisis
- Year 1999 : introduction of the Euro to world financial markets
- Year 2000 : bursting of the dot-com technology bubble
- Year 2001 : Enron, the failure of corporate finance and governance
- Year 2002 : Sarbanes-Oxley Act
- Year 2003-2011 : Iraq War's impact on the U.S. economy
- Year 2005 : growth of China and India as world economic powers
- Year 2007-2008 : subprime housing crisis and mortgage meltdown
- Year 2007-2009 : global recession and breakdown of major Wall Street institutions
- Year 2010 : Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
- Year 2011-2012 : European debt crisis
- Bernanke, Ben S., 14th chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board
- Bloomberg, Michael R., politician and businessperson
- Bogle, John, founder of the Vanguard Group
- Buffett, Warren, owner of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
- Bush, George W., 43rd president of the United States
- Clinton, William, 42nd president of the United States
- Geithner, Timothy F., 75th Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
- Greenspan, Alan, 13th chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board
- Lagarde, Christine, managining director, International Monetary Fund
- Markowitz, Harry M., father of modern investment portfolio theory
- Obama, Barack, president of the United States
- Paulson, Jr., Henry M., 74th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
- Rubin, Robert E., 70th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
- Schapiro, Mary, 29th chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- Shiller, Robert J., 2013 Nobel laureate in economics
- Siebert, Muriel, first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange
- Volcker, Paul A., 12th chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve Boad
- Warren, Elizabeth, former special advisor for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Yellen, Janet, 15th chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board.