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an acquisition of existing firms by a foreign firm; contrast with greenfield investment (setting up new production facilities)
Rentenmark
(en)
a currency issued on 15 October 1923 to stop the hyperinflation of 1922 and 1923 in Weimar Germany; at the time, there was no gold available, so it was backed by the land used for agriculture and business; introduced at a rate of one Rentenmark to equal one million million old marks
shareholder value
(en)
a concept popularized by Jack Welch in a speech in 1981; in 2009, he came out against the idea
Tobin tax
(en)
a proposed tax on international financial transactions, especially speculative currency exchange transactions; suggested by Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Laureate economist James Tobin