If you want consumers to spend more, fixing the mortgages of those underwater may help. But lowering the interest rate millions more Americans pay on their credit CARDS would help much more.

如果希望消费者有更多支出，解决资不抵债的按揭贷款或许有帮助，但降低涉及数以百万计的美国人支付的信用卡利率，或许会更管用。

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When a floating exchange rate proves to be an irritant rather than an emollient, fixing it once and for all has greater appeal.

当浮动汇率证实为刺激物而非软化剂，将汇率彻底的固定有着更大的吸引力。

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Before we finish with the topic I should perhaps mention another argument sometimes put forward for fixing a minimum wage rate by statute.

在结束这一论题之前，也许我应当提一下主张以法规形式确定某一最低工资率的另一种论调。

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The State will have to exercise a guiding influence on the propensity to consume partly through its scheme of taxation, partly by fixing the rate of interest .

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Unaware even though the Wall St Journal had been ringing alarm bells about rate fixing as early as 2008.

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E-mails revealed as part of the rate fixing investigation showed traders were seeking beneficial rates for their trading positions.

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