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en finance en financial independence and retire early.
en economics business en finance, insurance and real estate a class of businesses.
en 2008 Özgür Orhangazi Financialization and the US Economy Edward Elgar Publishing 9781848440166 _IBAWevInNIC 11 As Figure 2.1 demonstrates, total income acquired by the finance, insurance and real estate (FIRE) sector has been increasing since the early 1980s. While in the 1952–1980 period, the share of national income that went to the FIRE sector hovered between 12 and 14 percent, by the 2000s it had approached 20 percent.
Proper noun
en Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (formerly Foundation for Individual Rights in Education): a non-profit civil liberties group founded in 1999 with the aim of protecting free speech rights on college campuses in the United States.
en Trump bans burning of US flag in defiance of constitutional protections w:Al Jazeera https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/25/trump-bans-burning-of-us-flag-in-defiance-of-constitutional-protections 2025-08-25 “President Trump may believe he has the power to revise the First Amendment with the stroke of a pen, but he doesn’t,” the free speech advocacy group FIRE said in a statement. https://web.archive.org/web/20250831005234/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/25/trump-bans-burning-of-us-flag-in-defiance-of-constitutional-protections
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