Personal finance: an encyclopedia of modern money management

Accountant

Affordable Care Act

Alimony

Annuity

Asset allocation

Banking

Bankruptcy

Behavioral finance

Bonds

Budget

Capital gains and capital losses

Capitalism

Cash

Certificate of deposit

Checking account

Commodities

Compound interest/return

Condominium

Consumer credit/debt

Credit card

Credit (or bond) rating agency

Credit report and reporting agencies

Credit score

Credit union

Currency

Debt

Debt collection

Debt/credit counseling

Deficit

Deflation

Delinquency

Derivatives

Digital currency

Disability insurance

Discount rate

Dividend income

Estate planning

Federal Reserve Bank

Financial advisor

Flexible saving account

Gross domestic product (GDP) and gross national product (GNP)

Health insurance

Hedge funds

Homeowner's and renter's insurance

Human capital

Identity theft

Index mutual funds

Inflation

Inflation-protected investments

Interest income and payments

Interest rates

Investing

Liabilities

Life insurance

Liquidity

Loans

Margin

Medicaid

Medicare

Money market account

Mortgage

Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs)

Net worth

Online personal finance

Opportunity cost

Pension plans

Portfolio management

Power of attorney

Probate

Real estate

Real estate investment trust (REIT)

Rent to own

Retirement

Retirement accounts

Risk

Risk premium

Savings account

Social lending or peer-to-peer lending

Social Security

Stock market

Stocks

Systematic market risk

Tax deferral

Tax return, federal

Time value of money

Treasury securities

Umbrella insurance

Unemployment

U.S. federal tax system overview

Wills and trusts

Year 1930s : The Great Depression

Year 1994 : creation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank at the Bretton Woods International Conference

Year 1970s to 1980s : economic problems and the United States

Year 1987 : stock market crash

Year 1989-1991 : US. savings and loan crisis

Year 1994 : North American Free Trade Agreement between Mexico, Canada, and the United States (NAFTA)

Year 1997-1998 : Asian financial crisis

Year 1999 : introduction of the Euro to world financial markets

Year 2000 : bursting of the dot-com technology bubble

Year 2001 : Enron, the failure of corporate finance and governance

Year 2002 : Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Year 2003-2011 : Iraq War's impact on the U.S. economy

Year 2005 : growth of China and India as world economic powers

Year 2007-2008 : subprime housing crisis and mortgage meltdown

Year 2007-2009 : global recession and breakdown of major Wall Street institutions

Year 2010 : Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

Year 2011-2012 : European debt crisis

Bernanke, Ben S., 14th chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board

Bloomberg, Michael R., politician and businessperson

Bogle, John, founder of the Vanguard Group

Buffett, Warren, owner of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Bush, George W., 43rd president of the United States

Clinton, William, 42nd president of the United States

Geithner, Timothy F., 75th Secretary of the U.S. Treasury

Greenspan, Alan, 13th chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board

Lagarde, Christine, managining director, International Monetary Fund

Markowitz, Harry M., father of modern investment portfolio theory

Obama, Barack, president of the United States

Paulson, Jr., Henry M., 74th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

Rubin, Robert E., 70th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

Schapiro, Mary, 29th chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Shiller, Robert J., 2013 Nobel laureate in economics

Siebert, Muriel, first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange

Volcker, Paul A., 12th chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve Boad

Warren, Elizabeth, former special advisor for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Yellen, Janet, 15th chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board.