One sense of the word seems to be the part of an investment not loaned but coming from the own pocket, e.g. what translates literally from German or Hungarian as 'own capital'.
But elsewhere, it is used to mean the balance of assets and debts. And then there are "equity markets". It appears to me there must be multiple senses of the word. And the more sources I read, the more confused I become.
So, could someone please boil it down to something clear? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
"Equity markets" are places you buy and sell shares... e.g. the London Stock Exchange.
in a small company this equity might have come out of your own pocket, but in a larger one it might have come from selling shares.
To underline how unfamiliar this is for me, here are the same concepts in German -- each has a different word root (the same is true in Hungarian but no one would recognise those...):
(ducks for cover) Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi
Equity means your dollar has as much say as other people's dollars in how a company is run... Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
as in....people tapped into the equity of their houses, borrowing money against their supposed worth. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
