While politicians, developers, bankers, architects, and almost everyone else quarrelled over the future of Ground Zero, the rest of lower Manhattan, as well as most of the rest of the city, quietly pulled itself together.
With rates so close to zero, future moves to bolster the economy will have to come via other methods.
In future there will be a zero tolerance policy for any actions that harm the reputation of the bank, Mr Agius says.
Mr Obama is already committed to using the goal of zero to shape his future nuclear plans.
You can understand why the Federal Reserve Board is so invested in keeping interest rates near zero for the foreseeable future which is several years to come.
So perhaps bond yields are being held down not by QE, but by the expectation that interest rates will be held near zero for the foreseeable future.
Steffen, a journalist and founder of WorldChanging, raised money for his book Carbon Zero, which details the future of carbon neutral cities and comes out next month.
But what does truly challenge the future of the naval services is the mindless pursuit of zero-tolerance.
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But that is a zero-sum game for now, not the future.
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There have even been cases were the tax debt went lower than zero and into the negative, providing an offer on future taxes.
The median value of probable future changes for a large number of commodities is expected to be zero, which is the necessary condition for a standard.
It means that the U.S. can continue to finance its operations by borrowing almost zero-cost money today and likely for the foreseeable future (where do you think capital will flight to if the Euro breaks up?).
If we are serious about job creation, we must encourage national lawmakers to extend the zero percent capital gains tax on angel investments long into the future.
It is hard to say what sort of nuclear future would be more stable and peaceful until you get a lot closer to zero.
But the savings rate in Japan, which was in the midteens in the 1990s, today is approaching zero and will likely go negative in the not-so-distant future.
He called the eurozone "a miserable microcosm of low or zero growth" and argued that, in keeping the euro for the foreseeable future, Europe's leaders had helped to preserve "the deep structural problems that the euro helps to create and intensify".
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