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31NetBank — This article is about the United States bank with the name NetBank. For the online service of Commonwealth Bank, see Commonwealth Bank. NetBank, Inc. Industry Finance Fate Closed by the Office of Thrift Supervision. Most of the deposits acquired… …
32Money supply — Finance Financial markets Bond market …
33Discount window — The discount window is an instrument of monetary policy (usually controlled by central banks) that allows eligible institutions to borrow money from the central bank, usually on a short term basis, to meet temporary shortages of liquidity caused… …
34Late-2000s financial crisis — The TED spread (in red) increased significantly during the financial crisis, reflecting an increase in perceived credit risk …
35Barack Obama — Barack and Obama redirect here. For other uses, see Barak (disambiguation) and Obama (disambiguation). For the Kenyan economist, President Obama s father, see Barack Obama, Sr …
36Financial Crisis of 2008 — ▪ 2009 Introduction by Joel Havemann In 2008 the world economy faced its most dangerous crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The contagion, which began in 2007 when sky high home prices in the United States finally turned… …
37Net capital rule — The uniform net capital rule is a rule created by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) in 1975 to regulate directly the ability of broker dealers to meet their financial obligations to customers and other creditors.[1] Broker… …
38japan — japanner, n. /jeuh pan /, n., adj., v., japanned, japanning. n. 1. any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces. 2. work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner. 3. Japans,… …
39Japan — /jeuh pan /, n. 1. a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 125,716,637; 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Cap.: Tokyo. Japanese, Nihon, Nippon. 2. Sea of, the… …
40Russia — /rush euh/, n. 1. Also called Russian Empire. Russian, Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Cap.: St. Petersburg (1703 1917). 2. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 3. See Russian… …
