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Financialization

Financialization is something that happens when money, or finance, is used to affect something, like an economy. It's like when you use money to make something work better. For example, if a company builds a new factory, it will also need to use money to hire workers, buy equipment, and pay for supplies. Financialization is when all those money activities helps the factory to work more efficiently and make more money.