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.
Economists commonly prefer to distinguish normative economics (what ought to be in economic matters) from positive economics (what is). Many normative (value) judgments, however, are held conditionally, to be given up if facts or knowledge of facts changes, so that a change of values may be purely scientific.