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Money Without Boundaries
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Money Without Boundaries

by Thomas J. Anderson
August 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
272 pages
6h 31m
English
Wiley
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Glossary

adjustable peg system:
Governments act as residual buyers or sellers of their currencies to maintain their foreign values within a narrow margin of a fixed par value.
asset-backed securities:
Combining standardized asset classes into a pool that is divided and sold.
acid-based loan facility:
A broad term representing all types of lines of credit secured by assets that are on deposit at financial institutions.
balance sheet:
A statement of the assets, liabilities, and capital of an individual, business, or other organization at a particular point in time.
beta:
Measure of a security's or portfolio's volatility, or systemic risk, compared with the entire marketplace or a benchmark.
bimetallism:
Government recognizes fixed ratios of gold and silver as legal tender.
bitcoin:
The first digital currency based on blockchain technology.
blockchain:
Technology that digitally secures the ownership of an item and its full history.
break the buck:
Money market fund shares' value falls below a dollar so investors will lose money.
Bretton Woods Agreement:
Pegged all nations' currencies to the dollar following World War II.
broad money:
Anything of value that resembles money.
capital allocation line:
Graph investors use to measure assets' risks, with a slope known as the “reward-to-variability ratio.”
Chicago Plan:
Called for complete separation of money as a governmental function and loaning as a banking function.
cloud computing:
Computing environment where one ...
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