They were worried that if the discount rate is fifty basis points below the Federal Funds Rate then it's going to hit zero and that would be embarrassing; so they moved it.

他们担忧的是,如果贴现率比,联邦资金利率低五十个基本点,那么它将会接近零点,并且那将会很尴尬；所以他们改变了它。

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"It's so embarrassing, the amount of money that was wasted because I acted like a big company, " she says.

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Like, it was so embarrassing that, you know, it's like sometimes you're kind of like looking for that area where you're, like, being subversive and sneaking in, and this was one of those ones where we kind of felt like we should've changed our name to DeHo.

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We've revamped the classification system so it's not used for us to just hide things that might be embarrassing to us.

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