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GEOGRAPHICAL DIVERSIFICATION

To reduce risk exposure to events affecting one region, this investment strategy develops a portfolio comprised of companies across different geographic regions.

GEOGRAPHICAL FILING

Documents filed alphabetically within categories, by source or destination of the record’s geographic locations. A specific record keeping method.

GEOGRAPHICAL LABOR MOBILITY

Worker ability to find employment by moving as necessary. Government policies and common standards of living tied to available transportation options enhance mobility.

GEOMETRIC BROWNIAN MOTION

A lognormal, continuoustime STOCHASTIC PROCESS where the movement of a variable, such as a financial ASSET price, is random in continuous time; the instantaneous return (defined as the change in the price

GEORGE SOROS

Born on August 12, 1930, this Hungarian American businessman and financier claimed fame earning a reported $1 billion. He anticipated the pound sterling devaluation out of the 1992 UK currency crises. Chairman

GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATION

Boring, sampling, and testing the soil strata below ground. Investigation analysis to establish compressibility, strength, and other characteristics of the strata. This is done as input to a construction project, preparing a

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY

Typically, generating electricity from running turbines of a conventional power plant using superheated water or steam from earth’s interior. Often the needs of a local community are covered because these plants are

GESTALT

No exact English equivalent exists; Fuzzy German word. Completeness, configuration, essence, form, manner, organic structure, totality, and wholeness are parts of the varying definition. For an individual, the organized form or pattern

GETTING THINGS DONE (GTD)

David Allen authored this organizational method and book. The point that individuals must record critical tasks to get them done and out of their mind is the keystone principle. This frees the

GHOST SITE

Name given to a now dead Website that was once active.

GHOST STOCK

If it has not been borrowed and sold short, a stock that cannot be delivered to the buyer.

GHOSTING

Challenging the value of a stock in trying to decrease stock prices by two or more companies. Inappropriate, unfair tactic.

GIBSON’S PARADOX

J.M. Keynes observed a correlation between interest rates and the general price level of gold economics. At that time in history the general view that had previously been held by economists was

GIFFEN GOOD

Condition seemingly paradoxal that a consumer item, deemed essential to the community, is in greater demand when its price rises, and in less demand when the price falls. This occurred to corn

GIFT CARD

Debit card with a preloaded amount. The cardholder uses it for the purchase of goods or services. Most can be used anywhere like a major credit card. However, some gift cards are

GIFTED

A person above average in one or more talents. Usually a child. An example is any child of seven or less who is able to play an instrument at near adult level.

GIFTING PHASE

Part of estate planning strategy. An investor uses wealth to provide for the current and future needs of loved ones and charities. Typically a rewarding time for the investor. Meaningful giving and

GIGA (G)

Specifies a multiple of one billion as a prefix.

GIGABIT (GB)

One billion bits. Exponential: 2^30; As a number:1,073,741,824.

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