Financial Fundamentals

4. Regulates business activities within own boundaries; intrastate commerce
8. Studies the transfer of money(any item that serves as a method of payment) between individuals, businesses, and governments
9. Federal, state, and local agencies collect taxes and borrow money to pay for public goods and services
10. Form of debt security, essentially a loan made by an investor to a borrower
12. Where the tax rate increases along with the amount
14. Certificate or other financial instrument that has monetary value and can be traded; bonds, debt securities, stocks
16. The debts or financial obligations that a person or company owes to others
17. Tax where everyone pays the same amount
19. A rise in the general level of prices (consumer price index)
20. Tax based on purchases

1. The cost of borrowing money
2. Businesses and other organizations which sell items, pay expenses, and borrow to finance business operations
3. Play an important role in many communities by providing with easy, fast way to borrow small amounts of money
5. _____ are consumers and households who make purchases, save, innvest, and pay taxes
6. Employment taxes such as Social Security
7. Taxed based on land and buildings
8. Oversees the activities that involve two or more states; regulates foreign trade; regulates interstate commerce
11. Ability to convert an investment to cash for full value; includes items like demand doposits, CDs, Treasury bills, and money market funds
13. Regulates banks
15. Regulates stock markets
16. County boards; city or town councils; services for an orderly society
17. Insures bank deposits
18. Potential of a investment; Default