| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | LOOKS LIKE WE'RE IN BUSINESS $800: In 2016 this sporting goods retailer got possessive & bought the assets of its bankrupt rival the Sports Authority Dick's |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | INVESTING & BUSINESS TERMS $200: The difference between total assets & liabilities is this "worth" net worth |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WHERE THERE'S A WILL $600: Princess Diana left the bulk of her assets to her sons, but also a 50,000-pound bequest to Paul Burrell, this manservant of hers her butler |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | WHAT DO "U" STAND FOR? $800: Have you got assets of more than $30 million? Then you are not just a high net worth individual but a UHNWI, "U" for this ultra |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | FINANCE TERMS $200: Wearable term for the process of getting full rights to assets you've earned as an employee vesting |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | FINANCE BROS $800: In September 2008 Lehman Brothers, with $639 billion in assets, filed the largest one of these in U.S. history bankruptcy |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | PRESENTING JEOPCOIN! $2000: We're very close to amassing the assets to make our crypto this kind of "coin", meaning it's tied to a traditional base like dollars or gold a stablecoin |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BANK "C" $1000: The assets you pledge as security for a loan are your this collateral |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | LET'S TALK BUSINESS $400: As the name implies, even for a giant company it can be a single page showing a business' assets & liabilities the balance sheet |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | BUSINESS $800: From the Latin for "untouchable", it's a term for assets such as patents, logos or customer love intangible |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | FINANCIAL TERMS $1000: Videos on sec.gov explain stuff like: investment advisers (fees are based on your assets) vs. these professionals (work on commission) brokers |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | MAKES US STRONGER $400: They're the qualities that give you strength; in espionage, they're people valuable to an operation assets |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | AFTER EFFECT $800: The pile of assets that allows a college to keep operating endowment |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | THE 2019 FORBES GLOBAL 2,000 $200: With $4 trillion in total assets, the ICBC, the Industrial & Commercial Bank of this country, tops the list China |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | WORDS, WORDS, WORDS $800: When you rob or swindle someone, you strip him of his assets like stripping a sheep of its wool; hence this verb fleece |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | A BIG STATISTIC $1000: BLK on the NYSE, it has more than 6 trillion dollars in assets under management, more than any other firm BlackRock |
| #7961, aired 2019-04-01 | THE WORLD OF MONEY $800: Described as the "grandfather of the world's secret tax havens", this country is said to have $6.5 trillion in assets Switzerland |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | IT'S ABOUT THE MONEY $400: Adjective for assets that can be turned into cash quickly without much trouble liquid |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | IRA $2000: This "faithful" investment firm with $6.8 trillion in customer assets says it's the USA's "No. 1 IRA provider" Fidelity |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | "B"USINESS $1000: Henry Luce said, "There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read" these pages of assets & liabilities balance sheet |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | E BEFORE I, BUT NO C DO I SPY $1000: Assets used to commit federal crimes are subject to seizure & this forfeiture |
| #7252, aired 2016-03-08 | PLAYBOY $800: Women from this Houston company that went bankrupt in 2001 showed off their assets in a 2002 issue Enron |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | ACCOUNTING $800: 2-word term for a company's total assets minus total expenses & debts net worth |
| #7151, aired 2015-10-19 | HI, Q! $1200: Watery term for the ease with which assets can be converted into cash liquidity (liquid accepted) |
| #7139, aired 2015-10-01 | FINANCIAL LITERACY $400: Cash, investments & physical goods are all these, from the Latin for "enough" assets |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | ECONOMICS $800: Including currency & other liquid assets, it's the total amount of cash available in a given economy the money supply |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | COMMON BONDS $1000: Vinegar,
the element mercury,
some assets liquid |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | BIG BUSINESS $2000: Gaming company SJM Holdings has billions in assets, including 17 casinos it operates in this Asian territory Macau |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | BIG BUSINESS $3,200 (Daily Double): With assets of more than $1.6 trillion, there's no more traveling by coach for this U.S. banking leader Wells Fargo |
| #6635, aired 2013-06-21 | BUSINESS & FINANCE $1200: Toxic & unsalable, they're the TAs in TARP, the "Relief Program" implemented in 2008 to stem the financial crisis troubled assets |
| #6602, aired 2013-05-07 | YOU SEE "L.A." $800: "Fluid" part of a financial portfolio that can be turned into cash quickly liquid assets |
| #6578, aired 2013-04-03 | "TAX" TIME $800: A warm, cozy home for assets you want to protect from Uncle Sam a tax shelter |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | "RR" CROSSING $1200: To lose assets in large quantities, or to bleed profusely hemorrhage |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | A YEAR IN THE LIFE $400: 1973:
He nationalizes all foreign-owned petroleum assets in Libya Gadhafi |
| #6455, aired 2012-10-12 | BUFFETT TALKS BUSINESS $200: (Warren Buffett delivers the clue.) I believe in productive assets that will keep delivering output in 100 years; people will still buy products from companies like this soft drink maker of which Berkshire Hathaway owns 8.8% Coca-Cola |
| #6215, aired 2011-09-30 | THE U.S. COAST GUARD $400: The Jayhawk helicopter can reach 205 miles per hour as one of the Coast Guard's main assets in SAR, "search and" this rescue |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | ASSETS $200: These "gains" are the taxable profits from the sale of assets like stocks & bonds capital gains |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | ASSETS $400: This chapter of the bankruptcy code allows a company to keep its assets while reorganizing 11 |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | ASSETS $600: 12-letter term for the lowering in value of an asset over time depreciation |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | ASSETS $800: If you exercise one of these synonyms for "choice", you agree to buy or sell an asset at a given price an option |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | ASSETS $1000: Assets that are understated on a business balance sheet are termed this, like a secret passageway hidden |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | COMMON BONDS $600: Illicit assets,
popsicles,
botoxed faces frozen things |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | COMPANIES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $400: During WWI the U.S. government confiscated the assets of this German aspirin company & sold off the name Bayer |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | MASADA $1200: (Alex reports from Masada, Israel.) The thousand defenders were able to survive for two years because they had more than a dozen of these defensive assets--collectors of water from the Latin for "box" cisterns |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | STARTING A LEGAL HOME BUSINESS $1000: After you make your millions, do this "watery" act to your assets, meaning to convert them all to cash liquidate |
| #5757, aired 2009-09-29 | SHARK TANK $800: (I'm Kevin O'Leary.) In this type of buyout, a shark swallows up a company with borrowed money, using the company's assets as collateral a leveraged buyout |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | SHAM, WOW! $1000: Let me save you time & money! No dead leader's assets need moving from this country's capital of Abuja; ignore the e-mail! Nigeria |
| #5480, aired 2008-06-06 | 2 TYPES OF CHINA $800: In 1998 this Chinese org. abbreviated PLA was ordered to sell off all its non-defense assets the People's Liberation Army |
| #5334, aired 2007-11-15 | FINANCE $600: Not a fraud scheme, the risk type of this puts more of your assets into the low-risk than the high-risk area a pyramid |
| #5299, aired 2007-09-27 | THE U.S. AIR FORCE $600: (Alex reports in front of a U.S. Air Force aircraft.) AWACS-E3s were among the very first airborne assets to deploy during this August 1990 operation, establishing round-the-clock radar capability Desert Shield |
| #5011, aired 2006-05-29 | YOU CAN BANK ON IT $1200: This word for a bank officer in charge of assets can also mean "to fire" cashier |
| #5011, aired 2006-05-29 | YOU CAN BANK ON IT $1600: In its "pursuit" of assets, this historic banking name is now combined with the name of J.P. Morgan Chase |
| #4762, aired 2005-04-26 | AREAS OF EXPERTISE $1000: Some attorneys specialize in this type of "planning" for the transfer of assets once you die estate |
| #4662, aired 2004-12-07 | AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS $800: Though Foster's is associated with beer, most of the company's assets are in Beringer Blass, a producer of this wine |
| #4659, aired 2004-12-02 | ECONOMICS $1200: On a specified day of its financial year, a firm issues this "sheet" of its assets & liabilities balance sheet |
| #4587, aired 2004-07-13 | EDUCATION $1200: This university leads the U.S. in the market value of its endowment assets; Yale is No. 2 Harvard University |
| #4577, aired 2004-06-29 | ACCOUNTING $400: Berkshire Hathaway's 2002 annual report had assets at $169 billion & these at $104 billion liabilities |
| #4577, aired 2004-06-29 | ACCOUNTING $2000: That shipment of tissue paper left out in the rain has to be removed from the assets account, this 2-word procedure written-off |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | WALL STREET $1000: Using a bull as its symbol, it's one of the world's largest managers of financial assets Merrill Lynch |
| #4057, aired 2002-04-02 | 20th CENTURY BRITAIN $1200: In 1995 this oldest British merchant bank went bust after a trader lost $1 billion of its assets Barings |
| #3610, aired 2000-04-21 | THE U.S. MINT $100: The U.S. Mint Police protect $100 billion in assets at this Kentucky site Fort Knox |
| #3563, aired 2000-02-16 | STRICTLY BUSINESS $1000: From Latin for "beside", they're the assets a borrower "puts up" to ensure repayment Collateral |
| #3408, aired 1999-06-02 | ACCOUNTING EXAM $400: Assets like land & machines are:
A. fixed
B. repaired
C. mended Fixed |
| #3316, aired 1999-01-25 | THE FINE PRINT $200: Filing under Chapter 7 of this code, you'll lose most of your nonexempt assets Bankruptcy |
| #3226, aired 1998-09-21 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $100: As Hollywood's highest paid actress, her assets include a $12.5 million salary for "Striptease" Demi Moore |
| #3059, aired 1997-12-11 | BANKRUPTCY $1000: This "wet" term means selling off a bankrupt person's assets to pay creditors Liquidation |
| #3041, aired 1997-11-17 | EURONEWS $200: On Dec. 11, 1996 this country agreed to search its banks for the assets of Holocaust victims Switzerland |
| #2966, aired 1997-06-23 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $1000: The Tax Reform Act of 1986 set the tax on these, profits from sold assets, at the same rate as other income capital gains |
| #2894, aired 1997-03-13 | FINANCE $400: Cash is a current type; patents are intangible types; & plants, land, & machinery are fixed types of these Assets |
| #2665, aired 1996-03-15 | COMMON BONDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Daiquiris,
yogurt,
assets frozen |
| #2537, aired 1995-09-19 | ABBREVIATIONS $400: In accounting, ROA is a "return on" these assets |
| #2413, aired 1995-02-15 | FINANCE $400: Under this chapter of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform Act, a company may keeps its assets while reorganizing Chapter 11 |
| #2318, aired 1994-10-05 | FINANCE $600: It's the process of closing a company by turning its assets into cash to pay the creditors liquidation |
| #2183, aired 1994-02-16 | MONEY MATTERS $100: To determine your net worth, add your assets & subtract these your debts (liabilities) |
| #2045, aired 1993-06-25 | BUSINESS TALK $600: The takeover of a company using that firm's assets to obtain financing is known as this type of "buyout" a leveraged buyout |
| #1827, aired 1992-07-07 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $1000: In the early 1980s it surpassed BankAmerica in assets to become the largest banking corp. in the U.S. Citicorp |
| #1701, aired 1992-01-13 | BUSINESS TALK $800: From the Latin "fidere", to trust, it's a company that holds assets in trust for a beneficiary a fiduciary trust |
| #1500, aired 1991-02-22 | ECONOMICS $400: To determine your net worth, take your total assets & subtract these your debt |
| #1406, aired 1990-10-15 | BUSINESS BIGGIES $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1978 this company became the 1st to exceed $100 billion in assets AT&T |
| #1128, aired 1989-06-28 | "L.A." $800: Equipment & goods that can be sold quickly for cash liquid assets |
| #1020, aired 1989-01-27 | MOTHER GOOSE $1000: In the 2nd verse of "Sing a Song of Sixpence", the king was here, totalling his assets counting house |
| #894, aired 1988-06-23 | THE MOVIES $200: Francis Ford Coppola had to use personal assets to finish this war film Apocalypse Now |
| #616, aired 1987-04-20 | CELEBRITY QUOTES $400: WWII "pin-up girl" who said, "I got 2 assets. Period. And I'm standing on both of them" Betty Grable |
| #536, aired 1986-12-29 | ECONOMICS $400: It's the conversion of assets into cash, not water liquidation |
