Instinctively, we want to surprise our audiences with startling revelations, to keep their interest and to impress them with our storytelling prowess.
Thus corrupted on the public interest in fiscal responsibility, they could be expected to vote for their special interest to keep their gravy train going.
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Chairman Benjamin Bernanke has already said that the central bank will keep interest rates at their present low levels until 2013.
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The Fed has pledged to keep US interest rates at their record low level until the US unemployment rate falls below 6.5%.
Their decision to keep interest rates below the inflation rate is driving equity valuations up out of necessity, and this trend will likely continue for the foreseeable future.
Foreign governments risk overheating and asset bubbles in their economies if they maintain inappropriately low interest rates in order to keep their currencies undervalued vs. the U.S. dollar.
Trouble is, they're still diving for cover in the even safer short-term Treasury market, accepting negligible interest rates to keep their money safe and beyond the reach of inflation.
And each continues to find inventive ways to keep our interest and our belief in their pre-eminence as category change-agents, and leaders.
But papa also keeps the household afloat: his children have a keen interest in labour laws that keep their parent unsackable.
The success of America and Europe in trimming budget deficits and curbing inflation also means that policymakers have room to cut interest rates or taxes to keep their economies healthy, should Japan's recession prove severe.
At the same time, the U.S. debt ceiling had been raised by an agreement with the Obama administration and the U.S. Congress and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke promised to keep U.S. Treasuries at their same low interest rate - nearly 0% return - for the next two years.
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Saddled with such a large public debt, it is in the governments best interest to keep rates low, thereby reducing their debt service expense.
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Zero interest rates and bailouts keep the zombies on their feet.
Speculators had guessed correctly that neither government could afford to keep interest rates high enough for long enough to withstand their attacks.
They can also thank Asian central banks for helping to keep interest rates low in rich countries as they recycle their foreign-exchange reserves into government bonds.
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So there is a way that the Democratic Party can continue to pay off its interest groups with ever more money and thus keep their support.
The schools were not able to keep enough trustees on their boards and didn't disclose conflicts of interest, such as relatives of board members working for the schools.
What we have tried to do, though, is to make sure that people who had been making their payments regularly, who are meeting their responsibilities, if they could have a little bit of an adjustment with the banks, if some of the principal was reduced, if some of the interest was reduced on their mortgage payment, they could keep on making payments.
Extremely minimal interest rates on taxable investments keep the public and institutions complacent, their portfolios intact.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will try to balance the rights of Americans who have not been convicted of a major crime to keep their DNA out of the government's hands against the government's interest in closing cold cases and the rights of crime victims to finally see justice done.
All nine members voted to keep interest rates at 0.5% this month, according to the minutes of their meeting.
The target was designed to keep big borrowers like Brazil from defaulting on their debt service by budgeting enough money to cover bond interest to foreign investors.
Higher bond prices lower interest costs, and that has helped companies refinance debt, stay in business and keep employees in their jobs.
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