Blue Chip Kids : : What Every Child (And Parent) Should Know About Money, Investing, and the Stock Market

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Call Number: Y 332.024 Bi, Kids Book / Nonfiction / Careers & Business / Bianchi, David W., Kids Book / Nonfiction / Careers & Business / Bianchi, David W.
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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1. Money, money, money : The journey begins ; Money from around the world: it's not all the same ; The Euro: what's that all about? ; Exchange rates and currency exchanges ; Different ways to make money ; Bitcoin -- 2. Different ways to pay for things : Checking accounts ; Electronic bill payment ; Electronic banking ; Credit cards ; Debit cards ; Wire transfers -- 3. The stock market is cool : Stock markets and stock exchanges: what is the difference? ; What is a stock market? ; Wall Street and the stock market ; Stocks ; Stock certificates ; Market cap ; Bid/ask/spread ; The free market and valuation ; When can you buy and sell stocks? ; Stock market indexes ; Initial public offerings (IPO) ; The Securities and Exchange Commission ; Market correction ; Market rally -- 4. Let's buy and sell some stocks : Buy the dips ; Bulls and bears ; Paper profits and paper losses ; Risk on/risk off ; Stock charts ; Market top ; Market bottom ; Trading range ; Being long a stock ; Being short a stock ; High-frequency trading ; Fully invested ; Leverage -- 5. Stock options (impress your friends with this one) : Options and the world of puts and calls ; Options: how they work ; Options expire: they don't last forever ; Puts ; More about puts ; The underwater put option (say what?!) ; Calls ; More about calls ; The underwater call option ; The naked call option (OMG, did you say naked?!) ; Trading options -- 6. Funds (giant pools of money) : What is a fund? ; Index funds ; Mutual funds ; Hedge funds -- 7. Bonds and certificates of deposit (sounds boring but it's not) : Bonds ; Yield ; U.S. Treasury notes and bonds ; Basis points ; Certificates of deposit -- 8. Analyzing companies (seriously, this will make you very smart) : How to analyze a company to see if you want to buy its stock ; Price/earnings (P/E) ratio ; EBITDA ; Market share ; Earnings season ; Guidance ; Dividends ; Special dividends ; Stock buybacks ; Transparency ; Private versus public companies ; 52-week moving average -- 9. Borrowing money (don't borrow too much--ever!) : Mortgages ; Amortization ; Credit ratings and non-real estate loans ; Default ; Bankruptcy ; LIBOR -- 10. Interest rates (making money while you sleep) : Simple interest ; Compound interest ; Annual percentage rate (APR) -- 11. Net worth (what's your stuff worth?) : Assets ; Liabilities ; Net worth ; Financial statements ; The "Oracle of Omaha" -- 12. Taxes (the lower, the better) : Gross income ; Net income ; Taxes ; Audits -- 13. The economy (the business of business) : The Federal Reserve (The Fed) ; Gross, as in really gross, domestic product (GDP) ; Budgets ; Budgets in action ; Our national debt ; Deficits and the national debt; so what? What do they have to do with investing? -- 14. Venture capital and private equity (big bets chasing big profits) : Venture capital (VC) ; Private equity -- 15. Money smart (move to the front of the class!) : Retirement savings ; Your mission, should you choose to accept it ; You are now money smart! -- 16. And so it ends--or maybe this is just the beginning.

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