Icelanders claim that charging 5.5% interest over 15 years is extortionate in an era of near-zero base rates.

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The company last year unfurled an ambitious plan to become a leader in the field and even stated a goal of becoming the largest solar producer in the world by 2015 from a current base of effectively zero.

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Created by long-time base jumper and skydiver, Ossie Khan, and shot over a two-year period, Experience Zero Gravity reveals some of the most stunning base jumping locations in Europe.

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Using a base-20 counting system (ours is base 10) and zero, they easily calculated thousands of dates, some noting the existence of millions of years.

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Despite this help for the economy from looser monetary policy, the worry is that the Bank of England is running out of ammunition as the base rate heads towards zero.

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This is zero-sum thinking at its most base.

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While these users reflect a tiny sliver of our user base, any number greater than zero is deeply unacceptable to us.

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