The first is that the marginal cost of such products is close to zero.
Adjust your withholding to lower that refund to as close to zero as possible.
Amazingly, despite their individual poverty the default rate as a group is very close to zero.
And it is not just the U.S. Global real broad money growth is close to zero.
Lower import prices would then push inflation dangerously close to zero in America and Europe.
Net of inflation and net of taxes, that's awfully close to zero real after-tax return.
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The return on cash is close to zero in most of the developed world.
We favor trying to reduce the chance of something bad happening to as close to zero as possible.
Any of us can now communicate with anybody else, anywhere in the world, at costs close to zero.
There are a number of good reasons to think the optimal long-run inflation rate is close to zero.
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The net result is a zero, or close to zero, change in the domestic (and foreign) job count.
Expansionary monetary policy in developed nations like U.S. and Japan has held interest rates at or close to zero.
But with interest rates close to zero, higher yields are just a memory.
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But bringing them down close to zero, in government or in any other sphere, will remain a fool's errand.
With rates so close to zero, future moves to bolster the economy will have to come via other methods.
Currently, the Fed funds rate is close to zero and is expected to remain there until at least mid-2013.
Money is cheap in part because of the Federal Reserve's unprecedented policy of holding short-term rates close to zero.
Nominal interest rates are close to zero, and yet the economy stagnates.
So revisions have generally been very slightly downwards, albeit by a figure so close to zero it makes no difference.
The Bank of Japan has kept interest rates close to zero but remains otherwise oddly reluctant to take stronger action.
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The authorities have been forced to push interest rates close to zero in order to give investors a one-way bet.
The Fed has to lower federal funds close to zero if for no other reason than allowing banks to arbitrage money.
It should be close to zero, as increases in regional spending ought to be balanced by reductions in the central budget.
It is not difficult to work out that, from the Fed's point of view, this brings them dangerously close to zero.
Now that nominal interest rates in most developed markets are close to zero, there is less scope for the carry trade.
To help them, Mr Vajpayee has offered to cut the excise and customs duties on information-technology-related equipment to close to zero.
But rather than reduce capacity since then, firms borrowed to add more, encouraged by interest rates that were close to zero.
Interest rates in the US have been close to zero for several years, and the Fed again kept them at below 0.25%.
Those exceptionally low levels are between 0 and quarter % - or as close to zero as it is possible to get.
Yet the Fed remains concerned about sluggish growth and the weak labor market and is committed to maintaining rates close to zero.
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