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Term of the day:
Bailout

Last few days:

Credit Crisis	Pilot Fishing
Insurance	Weighted Average Loan Age - WALA
Depreciation Recapture	Circulating Capital
Automatic Investment Plan - AIP	Protest Divestment
Value Averaging	Sheep
Statement Shock	Direct Stock Purchase Plan - DSPP
Blue Chip	Frontier Markets
Corporate Action	Investment Horizon
Time Value of Money	Mandatory Redemption Schedule
Dollar-Cost Averaging - DCA	Shared Equity Finance Agreements
Efficient Market Hypothesis - EMH	Risk-Return Tradeoff
Organized Labor	Patronage Dividend
Coverdell Education Savings Account - ESA	Price Level
Minimum Wage	Bilateral Netting
Natural Monopoly	Prenuptial Agreement
Fair Trade Investing	Judgment Lien
Staycation	Opt-Out Plan
Wage Assignment	Golden Handshake
Weather Derivative	Secular Market
Underemployment	Sprinkling Provision
Alphabet Rounds	Closing Costs
Obamanomics	Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008
Loss Psychology	Hobby Loss
Postnuptial Agreement	Emotional Neutrality
Cooling Degree Day - CDD	Condotel
Antedate	Mortgage Pool
Little Board	Abandonment Clause
Lifestyle Creep	Traveler's Check
Sunset Provision	Bear Market
Natural Gas ETF	Recareering
Water ETF	Mark To Model
Yankee Bond	Creation Unit
Maple Bond	Commodity ETF
Exon-Florio Provision	Indicative Net Asset Value - iNAV
Comfort Letter	Authorized Participant
Exchange Traded Notes - ETN	Analyst Sponsorship
Deficit Spending	ETF Wrap
Intelligent ETF	Minsky Moment
Godfather Offer	Income Risk
Narrow Moat	Passive Management
Debt Fatigue	Leveraged ETF
Spiders - SPDR	Exchange-Traded Fund - ETF
Froth	Shotgun Clause
Currency Certificate	Rational Pricing
Sterilized Intervention	Theory Of The Firm
Big Bang	Exotic Currency
Interest Rate Differential - IRD	Leptokurtic
Rio Hedge	Pip
Currency Binary	Big Mac PPP
Manager Of Managers - MOM	Money Illusion
Quote Currency	Transaction Risk
Sidecar Investment	Pale Recession
Exit Fee	Duopsony
Abusive Tax Shelter	In-House Financing
Young And Wealthy But Normal - YAWN	Bunny Bond
Defined-Benefit Plan	1040EZ Form
Leprechaun Leader	Married Filing Jointly
Eminent Domain	Total Housing Expense
Credit Spread Option	Roth IRA
Foregone Earnings	Liquidity Event
Itemized Deduction	Jingle Mail
Savings Incentive Match Plan For Employees Of Small Employers - SIMPLE	Long-Term Equity Anticipation Securities - LEAPS
Tax Avoidance	Incontestability Clause
Community Investing	Required Minimum Distribution - RMD
Enhanced Indexing	Bagel Land
Standard Deduction	Marital Property
Non-Refundable Tax Credit	Sweetheart Deal
Catch-Up Contribution	Internal Revenue Service - IRS
IRA Rollover	Tax Gain/Loss Harvesting
Loose Credit	Heroes Earned Retirement Opportunities Act - HERO
Income Tax	Individual Retirement Account - IRA
Negative Gearing	Closed-End Credit
Insolvency	Overreaction
House Poor	Inverse ETF
Chapter 13	FICO Score
Greenwashing	Credit Limit
Mortgage	Brokerage Window
Collection Agency	Revolving Credit
Credit	Line Of Credit - LOC
Debt Consolidation	Nonforfeiture Clause
Life-Cycle Fund	Pac-Man Defense
January Effect	Calendar Year
Model Risk	Christmas Tree
Christmas Club	Snowball
Santa Claus Rally	Boston Snow Indicator
Expense	Quasi-Public Corporation
Ben Bernanke	Real Income
Capital Reserve	Affluenza
Budget	Autonomous Consumption
Collusion	Consumables
Baby Boomer	Peak Oil
Emissions Reduction Purchase Agreement - ERPA	Community Currency
Socially Responsible Investment - SRI	Cyber Monday
Black Friday	Turkey
Energy Improvement Mortgage	Corporate Social Responsibility
Renewable Resource	Ultra ETF
Agflation	Green Investing
Gadfly	Dove
Dow Jones Sustainability World Index	Carbon Credit
Domini 400 Social Index	Kyoto Protocol
Soft Market	Green Fund
Zombies	Triple Witching
Death Spiral	Badwill
Earnings Recast	Death Bond
Gray List	Tech Bubble
Product Differentiation	Intermarket Analysis
Stock Replacement Strategy	Junk Fees
Bullet Dodging	Regulatory Risk
Wet Loan	Niche Banks
Benchmark Error	Beating The Gun
High Flier	Subprime Credit Card
Subprime Rates	Management Tenure
Subprime Auto Loan	Subprime Credit
Voluntary Export Restraint - VER	Deprivatization
Subprime Meltdown	Negative Amortization
Marketweight	Trading Authorization
Hardship Withdrawal	Subprime Mortgage
Predatory Lending	Blue Ocean
Subprime Lender	Payment Shock
USA Patriot Act	Acquisition Indigestion
3/27 Adjustable Rate Mortgage - 3/27 ARM	Estate Freeze
Cluster Analysis	Cluster Analysis
Estate Freeze	3/27 Adjustable Rate Mortgage - 3/27 ARM
Acquisition Indigestion	USA Patriot Act
Subprime Lender	Blue Ocean
Predatory Lending	Subprime Mortgage
Living Wage	Organized Labor
Truth In Lending Act - TILA	Technical Correction
Media Effect	Investment Horizon
Financial Plan	Temporary Lender
World Fund	Intelligent ETF
Blind Pool	Green Fund
130-30 Strategy	Welfare
Hub And Spoke Structure	Special Situation
Planned Obsolescence	Horizontal Analysis
Microsavings	Snowball
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority - FINRA	Discouraged Worker
Carried Interest	Startup
Share Class	Walk-Away Lease
Cash Position	Cult Stock
Settlement Period	Harry Potter Stock Index
Financial Distress	Two And Twenty
Tax Fairness	Momentum Investing
Secular Market	Downshifting
Housing Bubble	Runner
Embargo	Reconciliation
Embezzlement	Backstop Purchaser
Yankee Bond	Emergency Fund
Pre-Existing Condition	Alpha Generator
Hybrid Market	Workout Assumption
Suspended Trading	Tax-Free Spinoff
Performance Drag	End Loan
Trading Effect	Inbound Cash Flow
Godfather Offer	Negatively Amortizing Loan
3-6-3 Rule	Competitive Advantage
Thrift Savings Plan - TSP	Allocation Notice
Spring Loading	Negative Points
Price Creep	Market Distortion
Hiccup	Focus List
Agflation	Refinance Wave
Liability Insurance	Chasing the Market
Calendar Effect	Risk Management
Multi-Leg Options Order	House Maintenance Requirement
Bilateral Monopoly	Payment Option ARM
Longevity Risk	Switching Costs
Negative Arbitrage	Pour-Over Will
Backup Withholding	Long-Term Incentive Plan - LTIP
Cash-Out Refinance	Sin Tax
Indexed Annuity	Prime
Performance-Based Compensation	Quarter On Quarter - QOQ
Chapter 13	Allocation Rate
Fundamentally Weighted Index	Buy, Strip And Flip
Industry Group	Growth Recession
Payment Shock	Income Tax
Double Taxation	Across The Board
Brought Over The Wall	Exempt Transaction
Efficiency Principle	Capital Gains Tax
Positive Economics	Manager Of Managers - MOM
Finite Reinsurance	Greater Fool Theory
Disequilibrium	Longevity Derivatives
Matched Sale-Purchase Agreement - MSPA	Incurred But Not Reported
Inverted Spread	Alt-A
Normative Economics	Regret Theory
Fool's Gold	Hedge Clause
Euro Deposit	Hard Stop
Earmarking	Mini-Tender
Ovoboby	Field Of Use
Qualifying Disposition	Patent Share
Debt Signaling	Community Property
Derivatives Time Bomb	Sophisticated Investor
Glocalization	Friendly Takeover
Presidential Election Cycle (Theory)	Compound Interest
Sweetheart Deal	Undercapitalization
Gambling Loss	Super Bowl Indicator
Asymmetric Volatility Phenomenon - AVP	Letter Of Comment
Disgorgement	Doctrine Of Utmost Good Faith
Blue Collar	Risk Lover
Love Money	Legacy Costs
Market Perform	Permissible Non-Bank Activities
Market Overhang	Turtle
Default Probability	Price Tension
Service Shares	Linkage
Transparency	Segment
Pay Yourself First	Calendar Year
Oversubscription Privilege	Holding The Market
Value Proposition	Santa Claus Rally
Elves	Christmas Tree
Christmas Club	Boston Snow Indicator
Pigovian Tax	Reserve Fund
Sticky-Down	Dividend Recapitalization
Affluenza	Capital Requirement
Redlining	Chill
High Net Worth Individual - HNWI	Mixed Lot
Merger Securities	Topple Rate
Hindenburg Omen	Autotrading
Discount Points	Black Friday
Turkey	Barefoot Pilgrim
Cyber Monday	Redemption Suspension
Build-Operate-Transfer Contract	Negative Equity
Margin Pressure	Capital Rationing
Dove	Revenue Deficit
Legal Monopoly	Performance Audit
Demand Draft	Subvented Lease
Autonomous Consumption	Due Bill Period
Wildcatting	Identity Theft
Origination Points	Affinity Fraud
Misselling	Backorder Costs
Remeasurement	Do It Right The First Time - DRIFT
Sunset Provision	Free Credit Balance
Proprietary Technology	Patent Reexamination
Timberland Investment	Paper Millionaire
Saver's Tax Credit	Waterfall Payment
Transfer Of Risk	Earnings Recast
Darvas Box Theory	Onerous Contract
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 - GLBA	Fully Diluted Shares
Weak Longs	Quarterly Revenue Growth
Employee Buyout - EBO	Catch-Up Contribution
Incidents Of Ownership	Nigerian Scam
National Treatment	Kids In Parents' Pockets Eroding Retirement Savings - KIPPERS
Weather Future	Terotechnology
Lockbox Banking	Stock And Warrant Off-Balance Sheet R&D - SWORD
Foreign-Invested Enterprise - FIE	Conglomerate Merger
Federal Debt	Heroes Earned Retirement Opportunities Act - HERO
Fractional-Reserve Banking	Buy-In Management Buyout - BIMBO
Options Backdating	Blanket Recommendation
Land Rehabilitation	Coiled Market
Employment And Training Administration - ETA	Incubation
Fat Cat	Genuine Progress Indicator - GPI
Corporate Citizenship	Stop Hunting
Endogenous Growth Theory	True Cost Economics
Accelerator Theory	Crony Capitalism
Wash-Out Round	Flow Of Funds - FOF
Pump And Dump	Side Pocket
Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility	Boomerang
Human-Life Approach	Mello-Roos
Cramer Bounce	Incubated Fund
Crummey Power	Side Pocket
Elastic	Soft Economic Moat
Exchange Traded Notes - ETN	Control Stock
Windfall Tax	Two-Way Quote
Financial Blog	Financial Modeling
Dividend Signaling	Bear Put Spread
Flowback	Dividend Adjusted Return
Traveler's Check	Sideways Trend
Food And Drug Administration - FDA	Lapping Scheme
Investment Ideas	Credit Agreement
Phantom Gain	Flipping
Black Swan	Triple Witching
Copula	Capital Improvement
Stock Basher	iTraxx
Distributable Net Income - DNI	Kaizen
Finmins	Numeraire
Company Owned Life Insurance - COLI	Interbank Rate
Cash Delivery	Neoclassical Economics
Netback	Credit Netting
Choice Market	Indicative Quote
Initial Claims	Crawling Peg
Blotter	Single Payment Options Trading - SPOT
Misery Index	Mosaic Theory
Dollar Drain	Quality Spread Differential - QSD
Teaser	Highest In, First Out - HIFO
Collection Agency	Disclosure
VIX Option	Euronext
Brazil, Russia, India and China - BRIC	Home Bias
Microfinance	Incentive Trust
Alligator Property	Chasing Nickels Around Dollar Bills
Revenue Recognition	Katie Couric Clause
Pure Risk	Diluted Founders
Quant Fund	Disparity Index
Sweep-To-Fill Order	Bunny Bond
Spread Option	Straight Life Annuity
Heikin-Ashi Technique	Demarker Indicator
Material Weakness	Dynamic Link Library - DLL
Speculative Capital	Spot Exchange Rate
Kicker Pattern	Seasonality
Fair Market Value	Advance-Decline Index
Corporate Charter	Sheep
Total Expense Ratio - TER	Life Annuity
Bull Call Spread	Price By Volume Chart - PBV
Leprechaun Leader	Greenshoe Option
Celtic Tiger	Fourier Analysis
Headline Effect	Iron Condor
Adding To A Loser	Ax
Ulcer Index - UI	Intrastate Offering
Adjustment Bond	Currency Pair
Uptick Rule	Camouflage Compensation
Tequila Effect	Vest Fleece