Difference between revisions of "Fire sale"

From Conservapedia
Jump to: navigation, search
m (links)
(change to disambiguation page)
 
(2 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
A '''fire sale''' in [[finance]] is an emergency sale of [[asset]]s at unusually cheap [[price]]s, because the owner desperately needs [[cash]].
+
A '''fire sale''' can refer to:
  
Originally the term meant a sale at very low prices of damaged goods when a store had a [[fire]].  They would have a [[sign]] saying "Fire Sale: everything must go!"
+
*[[Fire sale (finance)]] -- a sale of assets at very low prices; no actual fire or disaster is legally required to use the term
 +
*[[Fire sale (science fiction)]] -- a coordinated attack by hackers on the government, transportation, and the economy
  
In [[science fiction]] and the [[movies]], a "fire sale" is  a [[computer]]ized [[attack]] on the [[government]], the transportation [[network]], and the economy by computer [[hacker]]s. The [[logic]] is that [[terrorist]]s have decided "everything must go!"
+
[[Category:Disambiguation Pages]]
 
+
[[Category:Finance]]
+
[[Category:Science fiction]]
+

Latest revision as of 22:32, May 20, 2020

A fire sale can refer to:

  • Fire sale (finance) -- a sale of assets at very low prices; no actual fire or disaster is legally required to use the term
  • Fire sale (science fiction) -- a coordinated attack by hackers on the government, transportation, and the economy