For decades, banks ignored creditworthiness and charged all customers virtually the same interest rates.
But the real roots of the crisis lay in such different economies sharing the same interest rate.
In addition, to narrow the competitiveness gap, all members should be able to refinance existing debt at the same interest rate.
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These pay roughly the same interest rate as the money-market accounts it previously used, but offer the benefit of federal deposit insurance.
They were able to transfer into Wells Fargo lines with the same interest rate, but were told that the terms could change after April 2012, Mr. Seitz added.
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After all, conservatives have children and grandchildren too, and therefore have exactly the same interest as progressives in preventing incidents like the one at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
There is no collated response, no simultaneous dialogue, no directions to guide them to all the same interest or sample areas, just scientists in silos looking and interpreting.
States such as New York would suddenly find themselves in competition with all other states and be subject to the same interest costs in order to sell their bonds.
There is always a tension between having a common means of exchange, a useful and good thing, and having to have the same interest rate, the same external currency conversion rate, not necessarily a good thing.
"I think an Obama presidency will share the same interest and concerns of our members and the rest of the American public, and that's get the engine of growth going, get innovation going again, get job creation growing, " Josten says.
Women entrepreneurs are as highly educated as their male counterparts, have the same early interest in starting their own business, and learn the same valuable lessons from their work experience and from prior successes and failures.
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If interest rates are 6% and inflation is 3% (ie, the same gap as before), and tax rates stays the same, the real interest rate is 1.2%.
In 2004, Portugal's economy grew by 1%, Ireland's by almost 5%, but both had the same nominal interest rate.
They have the same vested interest in raising alarm to justify bigger budgets.
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In other words, depreciation should not be the same when interest rates are 8% as it is when rates are 4%.
Economic growth is occurring at the same time interest rates remain low.
However, since joining the euro at the beginning of the year, Ireland has enjoyed the same low interest rates as stodgy Germany.
Because all member states share the same nominal interest rate, slow-growing economies with lower inflation, such as Germany and Italy, have higher real interest rates than fast growers, such as Spain and Greece.
So shifting away from the producer interest to bringing in more health insurance firms was certainly not the same as prioritising the consumer interest.
Mundell's supply-side framework never spurred the same kind of political interest on the monetary side as it did on the fiscal side, despite Kemp's and Wanniski's best efforts.
Convergence, in essence, is a question of the costs to the British economy of having the same short-term interest rates as the euro-zone.
My good friend and sometime mentor, Brian Wesbury, argues that the natural rate of interest is the same as the nominal GDP growth rate.
Now you can consult with someone thousands of miles away on the exact same image, in the exact same location and area of interest, at extremely high resolution.
And, at the same time, interest rates are likely to rise significantly.
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At the same time, interest rates in the US are currently near record lows - helping drive down cost of raising funds for companies.
What France is worried about is losing its own AAA credit rating and thus being vulnerable to the same sort of interest rate death spiral that is attacking Italy.
Considering that quantitative easing is effectively the same as an interest rate cut below a zero bound, the yield curve is very steep even with 10-year yields just below 2%.
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Tom Edwards of NPD Group says it may only take 10 years for DVD to reach 90% of the population compared to the 25 years it took VCR's to achieve the same level of interest.
Now, at 66, the former Tory party whip is taking on a role that offers new, but no less difficult, challenges as he attempts to guard the BBC's independence and at the same time act in the best interest of licence fee payers.
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