Stocks and Bonds profits and losses: A quick look at financial markets

(Bản scan) Nearly every person reading this book has probably, at one time or another, played the game of "Monopoly". At the beginning of the game each player is given $1,500 to invest in real estate, rail-roads, and utility companies, and the player who turns his $1,500 into the most money wins. Through-out the game, players try to increase the money a business they make, their profits (a profit is the money a business has left after its expenses are paid), by charging other players "rent" when they land on their property, or collecting payment for the "ride" should they lan on their railroads, or charging them a varying fee if they land on the electric company or the water company and thus "use" those utilities. In addition to money they fet from their properties, players can win, or lose, extra money from other sources, depending on the cards they draw from stacks called Chance and Community Chest. There is one card, among many others, in the Chance stack that says "Bank pays you dividend of $50.00," another from Community Chest that says "From sale of stock you get $45.00."