It would be the financial equivalent of a so-called scholarship.

The mortgage market was the financial equivalent of a ghost town: Nothing moved, nothing traded.

But student loans have always been the financial equivalent of chronic illnesses because there is no legal way to shake them.

We really need something more like a financial equivalent of drivers' ed.

That was disaster money, the financial equivalent of a nuclear fallout shelter.

This is all elementary, the financial equivalent of saying that two plus two equals four.

"This is the financial equivalent of handing a loaded gun to a kid."

This is the financial equivalent of over £6.45 million in 2008 terms, using the retail price index.

To win a case, he said, an investor would have to prove a broker with a system problem committed the financial equivalent of malpractice.

Indeed, in the past year, this expensive enclave has experienced the financial equivalent of a cancer cluster.