In effect, she is paying $5 in interest for a $90 loan for two months: the equivalent of a credit card with a 44 percent annual percentage rate, a level most of us would consider predatory.

实际上，她已经预付了90美元两个月5%的利息，相当于44%信用卡的年费，大多数人都会认为它达到了掠夺的程度。

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The hound gave the canine equivalent of a shrug, but immediately lost interest because now the Master, the Center of its Universe, spoke.

黑狗做了一个类似耸肩地动作，但是很快它就对这些失去兴趣了，因为他的主人，宇宙的中心开始说话了。

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In effect, Mr Paulson engineered the equivalent of a half-point cut in interest rates targeted at the mortgage market.

实际上，这就是保尔森实现了对住房抵押市场降低利率半个百分点的目标。

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The usual function of my equivalent of Power Point isn't quite the same today because I'm taking an interest in some of these diagrammatic matters as well and, as I say, I will be pointing to them.

以前我的粉笔相当于幻灯片的功能,但是今天不太一样,今天我们会用到一些图表，我会指着它们讲解。

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The outcome, eventually, was a rule by which a company can keep a special-purpose vehicle off its balance sheet as long as an independent third party owns a controlling equity interest equivalent to at least 3% of the fair value of its assets.

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In such circumstances, a small rise in interest rates is equivalent not to stamping on the brakes, but to easing up slightly on the accelerator.

ECONOMIST: American interest rates need to rise

Fortunately the U.S. does not yet suffer Japan's structural deadweights, but the Fed could still make the mistake of thinking that easing interest rates is the equivalent of monetary ease.

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