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Finance

20,000 Colombian peso note

The 20,000 Colombian peso note ($20,000) is one of the notes in circulation in Colombia. It is about 143 × 66 millimeters and the predominant color is orange. The front features former Colombian president Alfonso López Michelsen and a sugar apple, while the reverse shows a sombrero vueltiao and the canals of La Mojana. The first series of 20,000 peso notes was issued from 1996 to 2016. T

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Axe-monies

Axe-monies (Spanish: Tajaderos) refer to copper artifacts found in both western Mesoamerica and the northern Andes. Based on ethnohistorical, archaeological, chemical, and metallurgical analyses, the scholars Hosler, Lechtman and Holm have argued for their use in both regions (which are separated by thousands of miles) through trade. In contrast to naipes, bow-tie- or card-shaped metal o

Banking

De la Huerta–Lamont Treaty

The De la Huerta–Lamont Treaty (Spanish: Acuerdos De la Huerta-Lamont) was a treaty signed in 1922 between Mexico and the International Committee of Bankers on Mexico (ICBM) on Mexico's substantial debts after the Mexican Revolution.

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Esquilache Riots

The Esquilache Riots (Spanish: Motín de Esquilache) occurred in March 1766 during the rule of Charles III of Spain.

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Fobaproa

Fobaproa (from the Spanish: Fondo Bancario de Protección al Ahorro, lit. 'Savings Protection Banking Fund') was a contingencies fund created in 1990 by the Mexican government, led by then dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), to attempt to resolve liquidity problems of the banking system. The contingencies fund was applied in 1995 during the Mexican peso crisis to protect Mex

Finance

G2A

G2A.COM Limited, commonly known simply as G2A, is a digital marketplace platform headquartered in the Netherlands with offices in Poland, Hong Kong and the United States. The platform operates on the basis of resale of video games and other digital items via activation codes.

Finance

Investing.com

Investing.com is a financial data and news platform founded in 2007. Based in Israel, it ranks among the most visited financial websites globally. The site provides free access to real-time quotes, analysis, and market tools in dozens of languages. Historically reliant on advertising, the company added premium subscriptions with the launch of InvestingPro in 2022. The company has been ow

Trading basics

Miniconomy

Miniconomy (also called MC by players) is an online, browser based, economic and trade simulation game developed in the Netherlands. The game has over 141,000 registered players from 100 countries that can play the game in English, Spanish, Danish, Portuguese, German, French and Dutch. As of March 2016, 149 rounds have been completed.

Finance

Ministry of Finance and Prices (Cuba)

The Ministry of Finance and Prices (Spanish: Ministerio de Finanzas y Precios, MFP) of Cuba is responsible for managing the public finances of Cuba, including budget, tax, treasury, price and public credit policies.

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Old School RuneScape

Old School RuneScape (OSRS) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Jagex. It was released for Windows and macOS on 22 February 2013 as a version of RuneScape based on an August 2007 backup found in Jagex's archives. Although initially created as a restoration of an older version of RuneScape, the game has since developed into a separately

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Our Brand Is Crisis (2005 film)

Our Brand Is Crisis is a 2005 American documentary film by Rachel Boynton on American political campaign marketing tactics by Greenberg Carville Shrum (GCS) in the 2002 Bolivian presidential election. The election saw Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada elected President of Bolivia, ahead of Evo Morales.

Fiat currencies

Peruvian inti

The inti was the currency of Peru between 1985 and 1991. Its ISO 4217 code was PEI and its abbreviation was I/. The inti was divided into 100 céntimos. The inti replaced the inflation-stricken sol. The new currency was named after Inti, the Inca sun god.

Securities & exchanges

React (book)

React (from Spanish: Reacciona) is a book by Rosa María Artal published in Spain in 2011 by Aguilar, which compiles articles by José Luis Sampedro, Baltasar Garzón, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Javier Pérez de Albéniz, Javier López Facal, Carlos Martínez Alonso, Ignacio Escolar, Rosa María Artal, Àngels Martínez Castells, Juan Torres Lopez and Lourdes Lucia. The book, edited by journalist Ro

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Spanish miracle

The Spanish economic miracle (Spanish: milagro económico español) refers to a period of exceptionally rapid development and growth across all major areas of economic activity in Spain during the latter part of the Francoist regime, 1959 to 1974, in which GDP averaged a 6.5 percent growth rate per year, and was itself part of a much longer period of an above average GDP growth rate from 1

Banking

TIIE

TIIE (Spanish: Tasa de interés interbancaria de equilibrio, English Interbank Equilibrium Interest Rate) is a reference rate for the currency Mexican peso. The TIIE is a representative rate of credit operations between banks and is calculated by the Bank of Mexico.