Central banks respond to lowered demand by reducing interest rates and to higher expected inflation by raising interest rates.

To define an interest rate fully, allowing comparisons with other interest rates, both the interest rate and the compounding frequency must be disclosed.

Interest rates were cut by presidential decree to below the inflation rate.

The problem is not illiquidity but insolvency at prevailing interest rates.

Inflation and interest rates in Japan lately have been even lower than in the US.

If interest rates are low, we can attract a great deal of money from the public.

Third, benchmark interest rates are already near zero, and have been for a while.

They then decide what to buy or how much to save, given prevailing prices, interest rates, and their own income.

Low interest rates mean that the additional debt burdens that public borrowing will create can remain manageable.

We have found that too much loose money from donor funds sometimes interferes with the lowering of interest rates.

As far as microcredit was concerned, he had been calling for a dramatic reduction in interest rates.

Those experiencing rising and now double digit inflation will have to raise interest rates, while other high inflation countries will lose export competitiveness.

In spring 2001 the Federal Reserve started lowering interest rates and now it continued lowering rates to save companies on the brink and to keep unemployment down.

Absent the willingness of large developing countries to run trade surpluses and high savings rates relative to investment, the asset bubble in the US leading to a rise in domestic consumption and a fall in the savings rate would have triggered inflation and higher interest rates.

Japan s government has a huge debt burden, and its consumption tax rate is far lower than the value added tax rates that prevail in Europe.

Periodically, assets and liabilities in currencies other than the United States dollar are revalued for accounting purposes at the prevailing United Nations operational rates of exchange.

Over the past 25 years in Europe, unemployment rose as monetary policy was tightened and interest rates were raised to fight inflation.

There is a need for the authorities in China to introduce greater flexibility in establishing and implementing interest and exchange rate policies and to continue with reform measures.

But the public often views interest rate increases as negative events that increase unemployment and stifle growth. Blame game politicians like Berlusconi, who have failed to put bread on the table, their minions in the media, and Keynesian economic professors who don t understand and misrepresent Keynes sustain this distorted view.

They also believe that the government deficit drives up inflation and interest rates, thereby crowding out other spending by consumers and firms.

Sound macroeconomic policies relate to sustainable fiscal and external balances, moderate inflation, low and stable interest rates, stable exchange rates and increasingly stable asset prices.

The conditions of the last four years high unemployment, depressed output, low inflation, and low interest rates are precisely those for which traditional Keynesian remedies were designed.

The relocation to the ECA complex is therefore an attractive option, especially when considering the fact that commercial rental rates in Addis Ababa are higher than or similar to those charged by ECA.

When business investment committees become more cautious, we expect to see the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, and others lower interest rates to make the numbers more attractive.

If consumers go on a spending binge, we expect the world's central banks to raise interest rates to cool off construction spending and free up the resources needed to prevent shortage inducing inflation.

Lower interest rates can thus lead to lower consumption in surplus countries, thereby increasing the supply of loanable funds.

In general, growth was broadly based, supported by robust export growth and higher commodity prices as well as strong domestic demand driven by low interest rates.

And this is the idea that one of these traits dominates the other.

The inescapable information deficit obstructs all those smoothly working adjustment mechanisms i.e., flexible wages and flexible interest rates posited by mainstream economic theory.

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But the ECB has signaled that big interest rate cuts are unlikely as long as the German economy remains strong, with relatively low unemployment.

Monetary policy was undermined by the banking crisis, and any reduction of interest rates to boost economic activities would encourage further flight of capital and stop capital inflows.

Finally, it is critical to ensure a stable global macroeconomic environment, including, in particular, the avoidance of large and abrupt changes in international interest rates and exchange rates.

The reduction in extrabudgetary income to a great extent also reflects the lower interest rates prevailing in most countries during the year and therefore a lower apportionment of interest to supplementary activities.

For those Member States with a rate of change above predetermined threshold levels, a further review would be undertaken using a MER valuation index.

Short term interest rates, most macroeconomists would say, could always be set low enough to generate reasonable rates of employment and demand.

Recently, the Fed expressed its intent to keep policy rates low for a long time until employment picks up strongly.

The increased interest rates are likely to retard private investment, which lowers future growth in employment and wages.

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