These people are current in their payments but unable to get lower interest rates because their home value has fallen.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

In order to keep the currency convertible they had to keep interest rates high to prevent people from demanding the gold.

为了保持货币的转换性,他们不得不将利率提高,以防人们向他们索求金子的兑换。

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One is that people expected interest rates to go up and, so there's also another effect pushing interest rates up.

一方面人们预计利率上升,这是另一种推动利率上扬的因素

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The Federal Reserve suggested again that short-term interest rates are likely to remain near zero for some time.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

But the point is Reagan supported that effort and that made all the difference, and it took a lot of courage Reagan was going to take the recession in 1982 He was willing to support Volker no matter what to get the inflation down ... Alright, so... Interest rates in the summer of 1980 were quite high Yes, they were.

但是，里根力挺了这次货币改革,这才是重点，下这样的决心不容易,里根本打算在1982年来狠抓经济衰退2,他很信任沃尔克,为了降低通胀率，可以不惜一切代价,好吧，那么。,1980年夏天，银行利率已经相当高了,没错，确实如此。

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The aim is to help lower interest rates on housing and other loans and improve credit conditions.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

It's contracting so the Fed is trying to prevent a serious recession by cutting interest rates; they've been cutting them rapidly.

它在减小,所以美联储正在试图阻止一个因为利率缩减,而产生的严重的经济衰退；,但是他们最近一直在降低利率。

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Groups like the Asian Development Bank oppose limits on interest rates because of these high business costs.

VOA: special.2010.11.12

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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But if they act too soon and raise interest rates too much, the economy could crash again.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

The theory of the term structure is the theory of how interest rates differ according to maturity or term.

利率期限结构理论就是,怎样由不同的期限,产生不同的利率

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In his second term, he will have to consider how and when to withdraw heavy intervention in the financial industry and raise interest rates.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

Once they freed up interest rates, interest rates on deposits started soaring and banks started taking greater risks, particularly Savings and Loans.

一旦他们被放任去抬高利率,储蓄利率将会飞速攀升,而银行就会承载着更大风险,尤其对于储蓄贷款协会

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Lowering short-term interest rates is the Federal Reserve's main way to get banks to increase lending.

VOA: special.2010.11.05

So, if interest rates go down, the value goes up, if interest rates go up, the value of your investment goes down.

因此如果利率上扬,它的价值就下跌,如果利率上扬 这份投资的价值就会走低

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for an extended period." Low interest rates and growing federal deficits have weakened the dollar.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

This is January of this year, before the Fed cut interest rates, and this is the term structure.

这是今年一月,联储局降息前的期限结构图

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Steve Hess at Moody's Investor Service says if lenders were really worried, they would raise the interest rates they charge on loans to the government.

VOA: special.2011.04.16

The difference between those two somehow reflects what interest rates will be between one and two.

两者之间的差异在一定程度上反映了,第一年后开始的一年期远期利率

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The high risk has investors demanding higher interest rates, and not only on Greek debt.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

Most recently--A few years ago, we were living in a regime of negative real interest rates, when the Fed was pursuing a very aggressive monetary policy.

就在最近几年之前,我们生活在,负实际利率的政策中,当时美联储追求一种,非常激进的货币政策

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But now,interest rates for borrowing by troubled countries like Greece and Portugal have fallen sharply.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

We've had episodes in our history when real interest rates have made major moves and these movements are very important for what is happening in our lives.

历史上有一些真实事件,实际利率发生很大的变化,这些变化对我们的生活,有非常重要的影响

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Critics have accused them of abusing the poor by charging high interest rates.

VOA: special.2011.04.18

That's Depository Institution's Deregulation and Monetary Control Act; what that did was, it eliminated ceilings on interest rates --on deposits, it allowed banks to pay high interest rates.

存款机构放松管制和货币控制法案,所做的就是,取消了存款利率的上限,准许银行支付高额利率

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Lower interest rates made euro loans a good deal at the time.

VOA: special.2009.03.06

He said that we shouldn't think that the-- the simplest story of the term structure of interest rates, which he expounded there, is that forward rates equal expected future interest rates.

他提出,我们不应该认为,他在书中写道,对于利率期限结构,最简略的概括,是远期利率等于未来利率的期望值

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But China could raise interest rates to control growth and inflation.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

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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Interest rates are an old, old thing.

利率是个很古老的概念

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