Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday decided to leave this interest rate at nearly zero percent.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

Mr Miliband will have to decide whether to leave the rate unchanged and look like a windbag, or try to woo voters as the party of tax increases.

ECONOMIST: Britain's budget

However, this will leave the employment rate only marginally above its current value of 71.4%, well below 2008's peak of 74.5%.

BBC: sterling coins and note

However, both considerations mean that the true economic damage will be higher than the AMaxT rate, so we should leave some headroom in setting that rate.

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