At Expensivity.com, we try to make our articles as self-contained or “standalone” as possible, explaining terms as they come up. Even so, it is helpful to have definitions readily available of the business, economics, and money terms that arise from our work. Hence this glossary.
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M
N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | XYZ
A
- absolute advantage
- acquisition
- action (human)
- ad valorem tax
- Alice and Bob
- animal spirits
- appreciation
- asset
- asset management
- Austrian economics
B
- balance sheet
- banking
- bankruptcy
- bear market
- behavioral economics
- blockchain
- bond
- bubble (economic)
- bull market
- business
- business cycle
C
- capitalism
- capitalism, crony
- capitalism, state
- capitalism, welfare
- capitalism, woke
- cash flow statement
- Centralized Bank Digital Currency
- coins and coinage
- collateral
- communism
- comparative advantage
- creative destruction
- credit
- cryptocurrency
- cryptography’s role players
D
- debenture
- debt (national)
- deficit (budget)
- deflation
- demand
- demand, price elasticity of
- depreciation
- disinflation
- diversification
- dividend
- due diligence
E
F
G
H
I
- income statement
- indemnity
- index fund
- Industrial Revolution
- inflation
- insider trading
- interest
- invisible hand
J
K
L
M
- margin
- market
- Marxian economics
- Mercantilism
- mergers and acquisitions
- Modern Monetary Theory
- monetarism
- money
- monopoly
- monopsony
- moral hazard
N
O
- Obamanomics
- offshore
- oligopoly
- oligopsony
- open market operations
- opportunity cost
- option
- outsource
P
- paper money
- paradox of value
- poison pill
- Ponzi scheme
- present value
- prime rate
- pro rata
- public choice theory
Q
R
- raider
- rainmaker
- random walk
- randomness
- Reaganomics
- regulatory capture
- retained earnings
- return on investment
S
- scarcity
- short selling
- Silk Road
- socialism
- spoofing
- stock
- strategy
- supply
- supply chain
- supply-side economics
- Sybil / Sybil attack
T
U
V
- valuation
- value, labor theory of
- value, subjective theory of
- venture capitalist
- vertical integration