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Insurance

Definition Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss. It is a form of risk management, primarily used to hedge against the risk of...

Value

What is 'Value' The monetary, material or assessed worth of an asset, good or service. In accounting, value describes what something is...

Absentee Landlord

DefinitionIn economics, an absentee landlord is a person who owns and rents out a profit-earning property, but does not live within the property's local...

Off-Balance-Sheet Financing

DefinitionOff-balance sheet, or Incognito Leverage, usually means an asset or debt or financing activity not on the company's balance sheet. Total return swaps are...

Investment

Investment refers to buying financial assets with the expectation of earning profit in the future. The underlying asset is purchased not for immediate consumption,...

Above Full-Employment Equilibrium

What is 'Above Full-Employment Equilibrium' A macroeconomic term used to describe the real gross domestic product (GDP) is currently in excess of...

Facility

What is a 'Facility' A facility is a formal financial assistance program offered by a lending institution to help a company that...

Okun Gap

DefinitionIn economics, Okun's law is an empirically observed relationship between unemployment and losses in a country's production. The "gap version" states that for every...

Joint Tenancy

DefinitionA concurrent estate or co-tenancy is a concept in property law which describes the various ways in which property is owned by more than...

Japanese Housewives

What is 'Japanese Housewives' Japanese housewives, in the foreign exchange world, is a collective term for the legions of Japanese matriarchs who...

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