But they also have a right not to get ripped off by the sudden rate hikes, unfair penalties and hidden fees that have become all too common in our credit card industry,"

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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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I showed you a one-year Treasury bill rate for right now-- that's not right now, but you can see I have a one-year and a two-year Treasury bill rate.

一年期国债利率的期限结构图,现在没有了,但你们看过了,一年期和两年期的国债利率

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I can lock in the interest rate right now.

我现在就可以把利率定下来

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It has dropped precipitously and you note that the pink line, which shows the rate of growth of home prices, the rate of growth of home prices, has fallen just right along with the traffic of homebuyers.

而且跌的很突然,再看粉色线,粉色线代表了房价增长率,房价增长率,与购房者残参观量一样下跌

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