Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• POLICY LOAN - A loan often made at a below-market interest rate from an insurance company to a policyho...
  
  
• POLICYHOLDER - An individual who owns an insurance policy.
  
  
• POLICYHOLDER LOAN BONDS - Packaged loans acquired by policyholders that are secured by the cash surrend...
  
  
• POLITICAL COSTS HYPOTHESIS - predicts that firms with low agency and political costs and effective shar...
  
  
• POLITICAL RISK INSURANCE - The risk associated with possible negative events such as expropriation of a...
  
  
• POLITICAL SUBDIVISION - A county, city, town, or other municipal corporation, a public authority, and g...
  
  
• POLITICS MAKE STRANGE BEDFELLOWS - mutual interests bring different people together
  
  
• POLLUTION - Any substances in water, soil, or air that degrades the natural quality of the environment,...
  
  
• POLLUTION PREVENTION - Actively identifying equipment, processes, and activities which generate excessi...
  
  
• PONZI SCHEME - an operation intended to defraud investors in which no new wealth is produced and credit...