So unemployment rates could rise even as the economy starts to recover.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

The Fed then again cut interest rates in 2001 in response to the very definite weakness of the economy.

美联储在2001年又一次降低了利率1,为了适应经济中明确的弱点。

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All of these banks are really in control of short-term interest rates and these interest rates are used to try to manage and stabilize the economy.

所有国家的中央银行都可以,控制短期利率,通过控制短期率达到,管理和稳定经济的作用

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"Interest rates fixed by the Federal Reserve is price fixing and it should have no part of a free market economy."

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

I do, I have a...a way to think about this... ... some people call it the... The Taylor rule -...Taylor Rule, yeah And it says the rate shouldn't have come down all the way to 3 at this point, maybe, maybe 3.5 or so And that rule basically says that interest rates should adjust according to what's happened to the economy.

没错，关于这个我有自己的思路。,有人将其称为。,泰勒规则，-噢，对，泰勒规则,根据这个规则，利率不应该,一路狂跌至3%，至少也该在3。5%左右,本质上来讲，该规则说明，利率应该,根据经济形势进行调整。

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Congressman Ron Paul argued that a free market economy hould set interest rates, not the central bank.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

So that would mean that the Fed should be raising interest rates to try to tighten up the economy and bring the inflation rate down.

所以，这意味着,美联储应该提升利率,以试图加强经济,并且将通货膨胀率降低。

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And I believe we pulled the economy back from the abyss." To combat a crippling credit freeze, central banks slashed interest rates and pumped cash into credit markets.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

Keeping interest rates high was destroying the economy.

保持高的利率,是在摧毁经济。

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Rajesh Jain, a stock market analyst in Mumbai, says there is widespread optimism that India's economy, which is largely driven by domestic demand, will return to high growth rates faster than other countries.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

In response to the subprime crisis that we are now in, our central bank, the Federal Reserve, has been cutting interest rates aggressively to try to save the economy that appears to be declining.

为了积极应对,目前的次贷危机,我们的中央银行,也就是美联储,已经调低利率,来积极地拯救正在衰退的经济

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