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Great Moderation

The Great Moderation was the period from the mid-1980s to 2007 when economic growth and inflation volatility fell sharply in the US and other advanced economies.

Great Recession

The Great Recession, also called the Lesser Depression, was the 2007–2009 US contraction that began with a housing collapse and became the longest recession since World War II.

Great Reset

The Great Reset, or Great Reset Initiative, was a 2020 World Economic Forum proposal by Klaus Schwab to rebuild the post-COVID economy around fairer, sustainable outcomes, later the subject of a false conspiracy theory.

Great Resignation

The Great Resignation, also called the Big Quit, was the surge of voluntary job quitting in the United States and other advanced economies beginning in spring 2021.

Great Rock Capital

Great Rock Capital, legally Great Rock Capital Partners, LLC, is a private credit firm in Westport, Connecticut, founded in 2015 by former GE Capital executive Stuart Armstrong.

Great Wolf Resorts

Great Wolf Resorts is a North American chain of indoor waterpark resorts, the largest on the continent, operating 23 lodges in the United States and Canada since 1997.

Greater Arab Free Trade Area

The Greater Arab Free Trade Area (GAFTA) is a free trade agreement among Arab League states, signed in 1997 and eliminating tariffs on goods of Arab origin.

Greater fool theory

Greater fool theory, also known as the bigger fool theory, is a finance theory describing investors who buy overpriced assets expecting to resell them at a higher price.

GreatPoint Ventures

GreatPoint Ventures is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm formed in 2014, whose first fund raised about $199 million and which invests in enterprise, healthcare, biotech, and food.

GREE, Inc.

GREE, Inc., also known as GREE Holdings, Inc., is a Tokyo-based Japanese internet group founded by Yoshikazu Tanaka in 2004, known for social games and the REALITY VTuber platform.

Greek drachma

The Greek drachma was Greece's currency, an ancient silver coin from the sixth century BCE and the modern national currency from 1833 until the euro in 2002.

Greek land reform of 1922

The Greek land reform of 1922 requisitioned property and redistributed land to settle over 1.2 million refugees from the defeated Asia Minor campaign, dismantling large estates.

Greek land reforms of 1917–1920

The Greek land reforms of 1917–1920 were a program of expropriation and redistribution of large estates, announced by Venizelos's National Defence government on May 20, 1917.

Greeks (finance)

The Greeks, also known as option greeks, are partial derivatives of an option's value with respect to underlying price, time, implied volatility, and interest rates, used by traders to measure and hedge option risk.

Green Bay Ventures

Green Bay Ventures is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded around 2012 by Dick Kramlich, co-founder of New Enterprise Associates, and Anthony Schiller, backing technology startups.

Green bond

A green bond is a fixed-income instrument whose proceeds exclusively finance environmental projects such as renewable energy and clean transportation; amounts outstanding neared $3 trillion in 2024.

Green Dot Corporation

Green Dot Corporation is an American fintech company and bank holding company in Austin, Texas, that owns Green Dot Bank and provides prepaid debit cards and banking services.

Green economy

The green economy, also known as green economics, is an economy that improves well-being and social equity while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities, as UNEP defines it.

Green Equity Investors

Green Equity Investors is the flagship large-cap buyout fund family of Leonard Green & Partners, a Los Angeles private equity firm, with Fund VIII raising $12 billion in 2019.

Green growth

Green growth, also called inclusive green growth, is an economic policy concept holding that GDP can keep growing while environmental pressures fall, chiefly through decoupling resource use and emissions from output.

Green Interfaith Environmental Organization

Green Interfaith Environmental Organization is a small 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit based in Alexandria, Virginia, whose January 2026 Form D reported $250 million sold of a $1.45 billion offering.

Green marketing

Green marketing is the strategic integration of environmental considerations across the full marketing mix, from product design to green retail channels, and is distinct from greenwashing, its misleading counterpart.

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters is an American specialty coffee company founded in Waitsfield, Vermont, in 1981, which grew through the K-Cup system into Keurig Dr Pepper.

Green Revolution in Indonesia

The Green Revolution in Indonesia, or Revolusi Hijau, was the state-led intensification of rice farming from the late 1960s through the 1980s, using high-yielding seeds, fertilizer, and irrigation to reach rice self-sufficiency in 1984.

Greenbriar Equity

Greenbriar Equity Group is a private equity firm founded in 1999 that invests in transportation, logistics, business services, and aerospace manufacturing, managing $8 billion and closing its largest fund at $5.4 billion in 2026.

GreenCell Mobility

GreenCell Mobility is a Mumbai-based electric bus operator founded in 2019 and sponsored by Eversource Capital, serving Indian government transport authorities and running intercity NueGo coaches.

Greenland Holdings Group

Greenland Holdings Group (绿地控股集团) is a Shanghai state-controlled conglomerate in real estate and infrastructure, once China's seventh-largest property developer and in deep financial distress since 2022.

Greenmail

Greenmail, or greenmailing, is the practice of a corporate raider being bought out at a premium after threatening a takeover, most common in the 1980s.

Greenoaks Capital

Greenoaks Capital, formally Greenoaks Capital Partners LLC, is a San Francisco venture capital and growth equity firm founded in 2012 by Neil Mehta, managing about $18 billion and investing in Coupang, Wiz, and Anthropic.

Greenpoint Real Estate Innovation & Technology Venture

GreenPoint Real Estate Innovation & Technology Venture, known as GreenPoint Technology Fund I, is a New York venture capital fund investing in real estate technology.