The Federal Reserve at present has little scope to compensate because interest rates are already at zero.

现阶段联准会几乎没有余裕可以做弥补，因为利率已接近零。

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Because interest rates in Japan are so low, if you want to borrow to buy yen and you're a big institutional investor, you'll pay almost nothing.

这是因为日本的利率实在太低了，如果你想通过借贷去买日元，而且你还是一个大的机构投资者，就几乎不花什么钱。

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That is because interest on municipal bonds is generally tax-exempt. Investors accept a lower yield on a muni-bond than on a comparable Treasury bond on which they pay tax.

那是因为市政债券的利息一般是免税地，所以相较于收税的国债，投资者愿意接受收益率更低的市政债券(原译：投资者承认相较于收税的国债，市政债券的投资收益更低)。

youdao

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

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It doesn't match up very well though because interest rates have been going down since 1980 and the boom is very sudden, so it seems to me that Greenspan should have seen this bubble coming.

虽然这说法有些瑕疵,因为利率自1980年开始就一直下降,但繁荣却突如其来,所以我觉得,格林斯潘本应能看到泡沫的发生

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People are willing to lend to these organizations at low interest rates because they think there's an implicit government guarantee.

人们愿意以低利率,向这些组织提供融资,因为他们认为这里有政府默认的担保

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