I'm looking for the highest rate possible on a short-term certificate of deposit account.

我正在寻找短期存款帐户的最高利率。

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Laughter produces short-term changes in the function of the heart and blood circulation, increasing heart rate and oxygen consumption.

笑会造成心脏和血液循环功能的短期变化，增加心率和耗氧量。

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Many consumer loan rates, however, are pegged to banks' prime rate. That rate, in turn, is tied to the Federal Reserve's benchmark short-term rate, which remains near zero.

然而很多消费者贷款利率是与银行的优惠利率挂钩，这优惠利率又是紧盯美联储的短期基准利率，这一利率持续接近于0。

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If the Fed wants to push the Federal Funds Rate up and down it goes and buys short-term government bonds.

如果联邦希望推动,联邦资金利率上升下降,它将会去买短期的政府债券。

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And the Fed would face the delicate job if explaining to market traders that the short term rate they had been plugging into all their algorithms was variable, after all.

BBC: Central banks: A long way from decoupling

An accommodative monetary policy would involve keeping the fed funds rate (the short-term rate at which banks lend to each other) at historic lows so as to encourage consumption and provide cheaper credit to consumers and businesses.

FORBES: Is The Fed In a Crisis of Trust?

The bad bet on interest rates--a swap in which Harvard was paying a high fixed-interest rate and collecting a low short-term rate--goes back to a mandate from former Harvard President Lawrence Summers.

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