If the economy performs more strongly this year than expected, that should be the spur to start tightening, by raising the base rate from its all-time low of 0.5%.

如果本年经济表现超出预期，将成为提高一直以来0.5%的低基准利率，并开始收紧的肇始。

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And that is when the bank is likely to start restoring more normal monetary Settings, by raising the base rate from its all-time low of 0.5%.

那可能是中央银行通过提高已是空前最低的0.5%的基准利率的时候，以恢复到正常的货币参数。

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Short-dated yields may stay low: Barclays Capital notes they just start to rise in earnest about six months before the first rate increase, which may only come in the second half of 2010.

短期债券收益率可能保持在低位：巴克莱(Barclays Capital)指出，它们只是在首次加息前六个月左右才开始真正上涨，而首次加息可能要等到2010年下半年了。

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In a report for the La Jolla Institute, Joel Kotkin shows that New York has a very low rate of business start-ups compared with other big metropolitan areas.

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The mortgages start at low, initial rate but tend to reset to double-digit amounts.

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In Japan, according to Ken Okamura, a strategist with Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, the birth rate has been so low that the working-age population will actually start to decline next year.

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