Review: RIFF-it. RIFF-it good. We're coming out swinging! Started out in the spring of 2003. Never went to school, nobody talked to me. Except to tell me all the things I couldn't do. Don't want to hear about it.
The set of fundamental information that affects a business or an investment's value. Various economic factors need to be taken into account when determining the current and expected future value of a business or investment portfolio.
Newcomers to economics often assume that economics is about money and resembles finance. But money is only a small part of economics. Economics, rather, is the study of how people allocate resources among themselves, and that makes it a social science. That viewpoint wasn't always accepted, and still isn't by some overly mathy economists today.