Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
Guide to Related Topics.
Preface.
Introduction.
Ideas and Concepts.
1: Accountant.
2: Affordable Care Act.
3: Alimony.
4: Annuity.
5: Asset Allocation.
6: Banking.
7: Bankruptcy.
8: Behavioral Finance.
9: Bonds.
10: Budget.
11: Capital Gains and Capital Losses.
12: Capitalism.
13: Cash.
14: Certificate of Deposit.
15: Checking Account.
16: Commodities.
17: Compound Interest/Return.
18: Condominium.
19: Consumer Credit/Debt.
20: Credit Card.
21: Credit (or Bond) Rating Agency.
22: Credit Report and Reporting Agencies.
23: Credit Score.
24: Credit Union.
25: Currency.
26: Debt.
27: Debt Collection.
28: Debt/Credit Counseling.
29: Deficit.
30: Deflation.
31: Delinquency.
32: Derivatives.
33: Digital Currency.
34: Disability Insurance.
35: Discount Rate.
36: Dividend Income.
37: Estate Planning.
38: Federal Reserve Bank.
39: Financial Advisor.
40: Flexible Saving Account.
41: Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross National Product (GNP).
42: Health Insurance.
43: Hedge Funds.
44: Homeowner's and Renter's Insurance.
45: Human Capital.
46: Identity Theft.
47: Index Mutual Funds.
48: Inflation.
49: Inflation-Protected Investments.
50: Interest Income and Payments.
51: Interest Rates.
52: Investing.
53: Liabilities.
54: Life Insurance.
55: Liquidity.
56: Loans.
57: Margin.
58: Medicaid.
59: Medicare.
60: Money Market Account.
61: Mortgage.
62: Mutual Funds and Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs).
63: Net Worth.
64: Online Personal Finance.
65: Opportunity Cost.
66: Pension Plans.
67: Portfolio Management.
68: Power of Attorney.
69: Probate.
70: Real Estate.
71: Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT).
72: Rent to Own.
73: Retirement.
74: Retirement Accounts.
75: Risk.
76: Risk Premium.
77: Savings Account.
78: Social Lending or Peer-to-Peer Lending.
79: Social Security.
80: Stock Market.
81: Stocks.
82: Systematic Market Risk.
83: Tax Deferral.
84: Tax Return, Federal.
85: Time Value of Money.
86: Treasury Securities.
87: Umbrella Insurance.
88: Unemployment.
89: U.S. Federal Tax System Overview.
90: Wills and Trusts.
Events.
91: Year 1930s: The Great Depression.
92: Year 1944: Creation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank at the Bretton Woods International Conference.
93: Year 1970s to 1980s: Economic Problems and the United States.
94: Year 1987: Stock Market Crash.
95: Year 1989–1991: U.S. Savings and Loan Crisis.
96: Year 1994: North American Free Trade Agreement between Mexico, Canada, and the United States (NAFTA).
97: Year 1997–1998: Asian Financial Crisis.
98: Year 1999: Introduction of the Euro to World Financial Markets.
99: Year 2000: Bursting of the Dot-Com Technology Bubble.
100: Year 2001: Enron, the Failure of Corporate Finance and Governance.
101: Year 2002: Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
102: Year 2003–2011: Iraq War's Impact on the U.S. Economy.
103: Year 2005: Growth of China and India as World Economic Powers.
104: Year 2007–2008: Subprime Housing Crisis and Mortgage Meltdown.
105: Year 2007–2009: Global Recession and Breakdown of Major Wall Street Institutions.
106: Year 2010: Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
107: Year 2011–2012: European Debt Crisis.
People.
108: Bernanke, Ben S., 14th Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board.
109: Bloomberg, Michael R., American Politician and Businessperson.
110: Bogle, John, Founder of The Vanguard Group.
111: Buffett, Warren, Owner of Berkshire Hathaway Inc..
112: Bush, George W., 43rd President of the United States.
113: Clinton, William, 42nd President of the United States.
114: Geithner, Timothy F., 75th Secretary of the U.S. Treasury.
115: Greenspan, Alan, 13th Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board.
116: Lagarde, Christine, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund.
117: Markowitz, Harry M., Father of Modern Investment Portfolio Theory.
118: Obama, Barack, President of the United States.
119: Paulson Jr., Henry M., 74th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
120: Rubin, Robert E., 70th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
121: Schapiro, Mary, 29th Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
122: Shiller, Robert J., 2013 Nobel Laureate in Economics.
123: Siebert, Muriel, First Woman to Own a Seat on the New York Stock Exchange.
124: Volcker, Paul A., 12th Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board.
125: Warren, Elizabeth, Former Special Advisor for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
126: Yellen, Janet, 15th Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
About the Editor and Contributors.
Index.