• The term  comes from the Ancient Greek ”house” +  "custom" or "law", hence "rules of the house(hold)"

Economics

• The etymology of “______" relates to the

• state of being busy either as an individual

• or society as a whole, doing commercially

• viable and profitable work.

Business

• Born 19 March 1943,he is an economist, academic and statesman.

• He served as a European Commissioner from 1995 to 2004, with responsibility for the Internal Market, Services, Customs and Taxation from 1995 to 1999 and then for Competition from 1999 to 2004. He has also been Rector and President of Bocconi University. He was appointed a Senator for Life in the Italian Senate on 9 November 2011.

• He has been an international advisor to Goldman Sachs and The Coca-Cola Company.

• His research has helped to create the 'Klein-____ model', aimed at describing the behaviour of banks operating under monopoly circumstances.

• Who is he?

Mario Monti – Italy’s new PM

The word X, means ‘skilled artisan’ in Gujarati was adopted from Portuguese word Y meaning Master or Teacher. Portuguese present in Gujarat since 1500 in Diu. The Kadias and Kadia Kshatriyas worked on building Diu Fort and the Portuguese called them Y due to their skills at fort building.

• X besides Carpenter ( for Suthar community ) alsomeant Contractor (mainly for Xs of Kutch - majority ofwhom worked as Railway, PWD & Forest Contractorsduring British India).• The word in Gujarat is today identified with people, whoare expert in Building Construction.• X?

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Mestre and Mistry (Cyrus mistry)

• Inspiration for the X symbol itself came from the Greek epsilon  – a reference to the cradle of _____ civilisation -- crossed by two parallel lines to ‘certify’ the stability of the X.

• The X was established by the provisions in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty.

Euro

The bank traces its ancestry to British India. The founding in 1806 of the Bank of Calcutta, making it the

oldest commercial bank in the Indian Subcontinent. Bankof Madras merged into the other two presidency banks,Bank of Calcutta and Bank of Bombay to form ImperialBank of India.• It is the 29th most reputed company in the worldaccording to Forbes. Also it is the only bank featured inthe coveted "top 10 brands of India" list in an annualsurvey conducted by Brand Finance and The EconomicTimes in 2010• On 30 April 1955, the Imperial Bank of India became X.

SBI

Extra trivia

• The symbol of the State Bank of India is a circle and not key hole and a small man at the centre of the circle. A circle depicts perfection and the common man being the centre of the bank's business.

• Slogan : "Pure banking nothing else"

X was founded in May 1993 through the initiativeof Peter Eigen, a former regional director for the WorldBank.• In 1995, X developed the Corruption Perceptions Index(CPI). The CPI ranked nations on the prevalence ofcorruption within each country, based upon surveys ofbusiness people.• In 1999, X began publishing the Bribe PayersIndex (BPI) which ranked nations according to theprevalence that a country's multinational corporationswould offer bribes.

• A X is a professionally managed type

• of collective investment scheme that pools

• money from many investors to buy stocks,

• bonds, short-term money

• market instruments, and/or other

• securities.

Mutual fund

• Which word is obtained from old the French word ‘bougette’, purse?

• From the world of economics.

Budget

• When is the budget presented in India?

• by incorporating a wholly owned subsidiary orcompany• by acquiring shares in an associatedenterprise• through a merger or an acquisition of anunrelated enterprise• participating in an equity joint venture withanother investor or enterprise...• These are the methods describing what?

Foreign Direct Investment(FDI)

• This term was first developed by Simon Kuznets for a US Congress report in 1934, who immediately said not to use it as a “measure for welfare” .

GDP

• Which word in Sanskrit means Instant?

• Very common in a certain sector in the country.

Tathkal

• Name the ‘Big Four’ accountancy firms.

• Deloittle

• PWC

• Ernst and Young

• KPMG

What is being talked about?

• It is a unique code created by Gordon Foster, Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin.• Another format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO 2108. Currently, the ISO's TC 46/SC 9 is responsible for this. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978.• Since 1 January 2007, A new format was adopted, aformat that is compatible with Bookland EAN-13s.

ISBN

Who?

• He is an economist who was awarded the 1998Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for hiscontributions to welfare economics and socialchoice theory, and for his interest in theproblems of society's poorest members.• He is best known for his work on the causes offamine, which led to the development ofpractical solutions for preventing or limitingthe effects of real or perceived shortages offood.

Amartya Sen

Id the project or FITB

• Dwivedi spent more than nine years researching_______ and read over 180 books on the subject. Forhim, _______ was "the first man with a nationalconsciousness.” And that is what made him take up theproject:• “I am not interested in the present; my idea is to delveinto the past and link it with the present. After a greatdeal of thinking I discovered that politics is the crux ofall sciences, just as _______ said....Today the questionof national consciousness is agitating the minds of ourcountrymen. Was it not ________ who definedRashtra and paved the way for the first one?”

Arthashastra

• There are varying accounts about how the Dutch-named "de X Straat" got its name.

• A generally accepted version is that the name was derived from an earthen X on the northern boundary of the New Amsterdam settlement, perhaps to protect against English colonial encroachment or incursions by native Americans.

• In 1789, XY was the scene of the United States' first presidential inauguration when George Washington took the oath of office on the balcony of Federal Hall on April 30, 1789. This was also the location of the passing of the Bill Of Rights.

• All blanks are same• What am I talking about here?

Wall Street

• X is the largest foreign exchange dealer in the world• with a market share of 21 %. X’s CEO and Chairman of• the Group Executive Committee is Josef• Ackermann since May 2002.• • On July 26, 2011, along with its second quarter

earnings• report, X reported that Y, head of investment banking• and Jürgen Fitschen, will replace Josef Ackermann as• co-CEOs starting next year.• • X and Y?

Deutsche Bank and Anshu Jain

• XY was founded in New York in 1869 by the German-• born Marcus X. In 1882, X's son-in-law Samuel Y joined the• firm. The company made a name for itself pioneering the use• of commercial paper for entrepreneurs and was invited to join• the NYSE in 1896.• • In the early 20th century, XY was a player in establishing• the initial public offering (IPO) market. It managed one of the• largest IPOs to date, that of Sears, Roebuck and Company in• 1906. It also became one of the first companies to heavily• recruit those with MBA degrees from leading business• schools, a practice that still continues today.

Goldman Sachs

Id.

Vikram Pandit - Citi

• What is the intention of trackgandhi.com?

Track Indian currency notes

• the procedure by which the X is determined twice each business day on the London market on the premises of N M Rothschild & Sons.

• It is conducted in US$, GBP, and the euro daily at 10.30am and 3pm, London time, via a dedicated telephone conference facility.

• The current five participants in the fixing, • Scotia-Mocatta • Barclays Capital• Deutsche Bank • HSBC• Société Générale

Price of gold

• Due to the recent economic crises in the US, Obama announced they will soon tax the super rich citizens of the country (people with over 1 million $ annual income)

• What is this tax, perhaps aptly, called?

Buffet tax

• born 2 December 1948 is a former Indian-born American businessman who was the managing director of management consultancy McKinsey & Company from 1994 to 2003 and a business leader in India and the United States. He was arrested in late 2011 by the FBI on insider trading charges stemming from the Raj Rajaratnam Galleon Group case.

Rajat Gupta

• X was announced in Britain by William Pitt the Younger in his budget of December 1798 and introduced in 1799, to pay for weapons and equipment in preparation for the Napoleonic wars.

Income tax

• Maurice Lauré, Joint Director of the French Tax Authority, the Direction générale des impôts, was first to introduce on April 10, 1954, although German industrialist Dr. Wilhelm von Siemens proposed the concept in 1918.

VAT

• What is there at the Phiroze Jeejebhoy towers?

Bombay stock exchange

D. Subbarao – rbi governor

• In economics, X is a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy over a period of time.

Inflation