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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The central bank posts an interest rate that is the rate at which these member banks can borrow.

中央银行设定一个利率,这个利率是这些会员银行可以借进的利率。

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If you have an interest rate--this is approximately equal to-- one plus the real interest rate is equal to divided by one plus the rate of inflation.

如果你知道名义利率,那实际利率约等于,这里应该是=,/

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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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I've got the Federal Funds Rate--it's the shortest interest rate, an overnight rate--it was at 4% at that time and then there was a sharp drop.

这是联邦基金利率,是最短期的利率,当时的隔夜拆借利率是4%,接下来利率急速下跌

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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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