He says the BOJ should buy up more government bonds and cut interest rates further, and he hopes the changes will come when the bank holds a policy meeting in a few weeks.

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So if it's slowing, rates cut.

若经济增长缓慢，则降低利率。

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The Fed then again cut interest rates in 2001 in response to the very definite weakness of the economy.

美联储在2001年又一次降低了利率1,为了适应经济中明确的弱点。

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At that time, the Fed had cut the Federal Funds Rate to 1%, we had very low short rates.

当时联储局将联邦基金利率降至1%,短期利率非常低

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It's very clear and that is the Fed had just cut interest rates to 1%--it was unusual-- it was much talked about.

很明显,联储局刚将利率,削减至1%,这是很少见的事情,人们对此评论纷纷

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Once interest rates hit zero you can't cut them anymore and that's what the Fed wants to do.

一旦利率下跌至零,你就再也不能减少它们,而且这正是联邦试图做的事情。

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This is January of this year, before the Fed cut interest rates, and this is the term structure.

这是今年一月,联储局降息前的期限结构图

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In my view--the Fed has dramatically cut interest rates.

在我看来，美联储已经戏剧性地降低了利率。

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It wasn't caused by the Fed's sudden tightening against inflation. It was different it was this recession was not understood not anticipated; the Fed came in late to cut interest rates to try to prevent it from being worse because it just didn't seem to have any reason for happening.

它不是由于美联储对通货膨胀的,突然紧缩政策造成的，它不同之处在于,这个经济衰退没有被理解，没有事先准备好；,美联储试图阻止它恶化而,降低利率为时已晚，因为,它似乎看起来没有任何理由发生。

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