The Federal Reserve has sent US rates about as low as they can go, cutting the benchmark federal funds rate to a range of zero to 0.25 per cent.

美联储正在把联邦基准利率削减至0到0.25%水平，这已经接近他们所能做的极限。

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The efficiency rate last year was the equivalent of cutting 480,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide, or C02, plus 3,600 tons of sulfur dioxide, or S02, and 28,500 tons of dust, the company said.

这家公司说，去年的发电效率相当于削减了48万吨二氧化碳，3,600吨二氧化硫，以及28,500吨粉尘。

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Still, cutting an auction short means you might not get the lowest possible rate.

而且，缩短拍卖时间意味着你可能拿不到尽可能低的利率。

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Making the code less complicated and more efficient may not achieve the rate-cutting, base-broadening reform many want.

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But that shallow rate-cutting scenario will not long survive a new batch of evidence that the economy is set to weaken further.

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The state and federal tax code are so laced with tax credits and exemptions that any base-broadening, rate-cutting reform is bound to raise taxes on someone.

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