Faced with sinking asset prices, insolvent Banks, moribund growth and deflation, the bank of Japan (BoJ) eventually lowered its policy rate to zero in 1999.

面对跳水的资产价格，倒闭的银行，萎靡的增长与通货紧缩，日本银行(BoJ)最终在1999年将其引导利率降到了零水平。

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Mexico City is sinking by up to 28cm a year and Jakarta is subsiding at a similar rate.

墨西哥城每年下沉多达28厘米，雅加达下沉速度类似。

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And there are other cities which are exploring potential solutions, including Mexico City, which is sinking even faster than Beijing, at a rate of 28 centimeters per year.

而包括墨西哥市在内的其他城市正在寻求可能的解决方法。墨西哥市下陷的速度比北京还快，达到了每年28厘米的速度。

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Floating-rate securities, securities with puts, securities where, if certain things happened, a sinking fund kicked in.

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Fixing the exchange rate between the dollar and euro by bureaucratic edict would be a huge mistake, like anchoring two sinking aircraft carriers together hoping the buoyancy of the two is greater than the sum of the individual compartments.

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Yet now interest rates have gone even higher (this week the central bank raised the overnight rate from just under 30% to 32%), in order to stop the floating currency from sinking out of sight.

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