Word: discounted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...infrastructure projects are to get further than a contractor's sketch pad and the economy is to be permanently transformed, not just temporarily revived, a long period of low interest rates is essential. For that reason, the overwhelming majority of economists argue that the Federal Reserve must keep the discount rate near its current 27-year low of 3.5%. Still, the central bank can do only so much. Since the bond market remains quite wary of a ballooning federal deficit -- and would undoubtedly drive up interest rates in anticipation of dramatically rising deficits -- Congress will have to keep a constant...
...time high, and kept setting new highs in the opening sessions of 1992. Inflation is at the lowest level in five years, and home mortgages are available at interest rates not seen since 1974. They may fall even further, thanks to the Federal Reserve's dramatic cut in the discount rate last month to a 27-year low. The official unemployment rate is nowhere near as severe as it was at the depth of the 1981-82 recession, and the contraction in the gross national product (so far 1.4%) has been far less sharp. "Ten years ago we would have...
...many economists are counting on the Federal Reserve's cut in the discount rate from 4 1/2% to 3 1/2% to set the stage for a mild recovery that could start by summer. The sharp reduction was significant because the discount rate, which is what the Fed charges banks for borrowing money, is a bellwether for interest costs throughout the economy. The average rate for a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage last week was 8.24%, the lowest in 18 years. At the same time, election-year pressures are likely to push Washington into enacting a few modest tax breaks...
...Wall Street feels so good? After five consecutive daily increases, the Dow Jones industrial average closed at a record 3101.52 last week. The bull run has pushed the Dow index up 167 points, or nearly 6%, since Dec. 20. That was the day the Federal Reserve Board lowered the discount rate -- which is what the Fed charges banks for borrowing money -- a full percentage point, to a 27-year...
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