Across
- 2. a homeless and usually penniless wanderer
- 3. a person who risks money in hopes of a financial profit
- 4. projects such as highways, parks, and libraries built with public funds for public use
- 7. a series of government programs, policies, and reforms launched by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Great Depression
- 8. monthly plan made to pay off the cost of an item when buying it on credit
- 12. This Law authorized the National Recovery Administration to suspend antitrust laws and allow busnesses, kabir and government to cooperate with rules or codes for fair competition
- 13. a mosaic flooring that has pieces of marble or granite set in mortar and is then highly polished
- 14. a long period of rising stock prices
- 15. buying a stock by paying only a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest
- 16. to take possession of a property because of defaults on payments
- 17. demand by a broker that investors pay back loans made for stocks purchased on margin
Down
- 1. an index, or tool, that measures the performance of the stocks of 30 large companies
- 5. act of buying stocks at great risk with the anticipation that the prices will rise
- 6. aid in the form of money or supplies for those in need
- 9. a system for buying and selling stocks in corporations
- 10. an agent who negotiates an exchange between a buyer and a seller
- 11. abbreviated term for poliomyelitis, an acute infectious disease affecting the skeletal muscles, often resulting in permanent disability and deformity
- 14. persistent and heavy demands by a bank’s depositors, creditors, or customers to withdraw money