Some people have a fifteen- or twenty-year loan, often with an adjustable interest rate instead of a rate that never changes.

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The interest rate has units of time, so I have to specify a time period over which I'm measuring an interest rate.

不同时间段有不同的利率,因此我必须在不同的时间段,细化不同的利率

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Buying them tends to push up the price; that tends to influence the yield down so it encourages a lower level of interest rate.

买进它们，导致价格上升；,导致参数降低,所以它鼓励一个低的利率水平。

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Right now, we have a Federal Funds Rate of about 3% and an inflation rate of around 3%, so right now the real interest rate is close to 0.

如今,联储局利率是3%左右,通胀率也在3%徘徊,现在的实际利率接近于0

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If you have a bond with an interest rate of 4.375% -that's not an easy one to divide by two but you would get half of that every six months until maturity.

如果你持有一种利率为4.375%的债券,这个数除以2有点难算,而在债券到期前,每半年你能得到4.375%一半的券息

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What they did instead of just-remember the Federal Funds Rate is a target interest rate that the Fed attempts to hit through buying and selling treasury bills in the U.S. or in other countries buying and selling government bonds to affect the market.

他们真正做的事-记住,联邦资金利率是,美联储试图通过在美国,买进和卖出国库券,或在其他国家买进和卖出政府债券,来影响市场的目标利率。

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