A Ponzi Scheme Is One Type of ______ Whereby People

question 43

Multiple Choice

A Ponzi scheme is one type of ______ whereby people swindle money with payments of returns earned from new investors.

• A) corporate crime
• B) white-collar fraud
• C) financial chiseling
• D) employee fraud

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Definitions:

Beta

In finance, a measure of a stock's volatility relative to the overall market.

Stock Price

Stock price is the current price at which a share of a company is trading on the stock market.

Earnings Potential

The maximum amount of money an individual, asset, or company could potentially earn.

Slope

In mathematics, it refers to the measure of the steepness, incline, or grade of a straight line, quantitatively describing the change in the vertical direction for a unit change in the horizontal direction.