Across
- 2. Aid for the needy; welfare
- 3. The act of buying stocks at a great risk with the anticipation that the prices will rise
- 5. A monthly plan made to pay off the cost of an item when buying it on credit
- 6. A system for buying and selling stocks in corporation
- 7. abbreviated term for poliomyelitis, an acute infectious disease affecting the skeletal muscles, often resulting in permenant disability and deformity
- 11. A serial drama on television or radio using melodramatic situations
- 13. A penniless wanderer
- 14. Buying a stock by paying only a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest
- 15. A long period of rising stock prices
Down
- 1. Minor officer of the courts
- 4. Projects such as highways, parks, and libraries built with public funds for public use
- 8. To take possession of a property from a mortgagor because of defaults on payments
- 9. Demand by a broker that investors payback loans made of stocks purchased on margin
- 10. a monetary standard in which one ounce of gold equals a set number of dollars
- 12. Persistent and heavy demands by a bank's depositors, creditors, or customers to withdraw money