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GLOSSARY OF TERMS
The current economic crisis has brought these esoteric terms into mainstream conversation.
 TERMS  

Moratorium
 
•401(k)
•Asset-backed Security (ABS)
•Bailout
•Bank Holding Company
•Bank Run - Bank Panic
•Central Bank
•Collateralized Debt
•Commercial Bank
•Commercial Paper
•Credit Crunch
•Credit Default Swaps
•Credit-Loss Ratio
•Deposit Insurance
•Derivative
•Discount Window/Discount Rate
•Equity
•Fair Market Value
•Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac
•FDIC
•Federal Funds Rate
•Federal Reserve Bank/Federal Reserve System
•Foreclosure
•Hedge Fund
•Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC)
•Interbank Trade
•Interest Rates/Basis Points
•Investment Banks
•Leverage
•LIBOR
•Liquidity
•Mark to Market
•Moratorium
•Mortgages
•Mortgage-backed Security
•Naked Short Selling
•Overnight Rate
•Recession
•Securitization – Securitized
•Short Selling
•Special Purpose Vehicle
•Stagflation
•SubPrime Mortgages
•TARP
•TED Spread
•Toxic Debts
•Treasuries
•Write Down
 
  


A Moratorium is the suspension of specific, or all, business and financial activities to prevent additional damage. During the financial crisis, some nations were forced to issue Moratoriums on debt while the U.S. considered calling a Moratorium on home mortgage foreclosures to help stem the tide of citizens loosing their homes.

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