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Interest rate

The price of borrowing money. When a central bank moves its policy rate, mortgages, business loans and savings…

Training data

The material a model learns from. Its gaps and biases carry through into the model's output, which is…

Judicial review

A court examining whether a government decision was lawful. It tests the legality of how a decision was…

Ethereum

A blockchain designed to run programs, not just move money. Most stablecoins, DeFi protocols and NFTs launched on…

Stablecoin

A token designed to hold a steady value, usually one US dollar, by holding reserves or by algorithm.…

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