These included deep rate cuts around the world, as well as spending packages and other policy tools designed to help struggling companies, banks and consumers through the downturn.
In a study of the lessons to be learned from Japan's decade-long slump, Fed economists said this summer that governments should take extraordinary steps to support prices -- like deep rate cuts or new spending -- when falling prices become a serious risk.
But the budget does not detail the tax deductions, credits and loopholes that would need to be eliminated or cut back to finance such deep rate cuts, effectively leaving tax writers a $6 trillion hole to fill — a task that Democrats say is mathematically impossible without raising the tax burden on the middle class.
Additional secondary outcomes included dynamization rates, deep infection rates (bone implant interface), compartment syndrome rates and malunion rates (>5 degrees varus/valgus, >10 malrotation degrees, and >1 cm shortening) [ 62].
Before the Fed's action, futures prices showed that investors were overwhelmingly betting on the deeper rate cut.
If currencies fall by enough, then negative rates might just pay off provided that sinking prices elsewhere don't lead ever more of the global economy to take the plunge into sub-zero waters.Dig deeper: Rates turn negative for some in Germany (November 2014) Will low interest rates boost the equity market?
Marriott's version remains the best, with the deepest rate discounts and the plushest room upgrades.
Per Shah: "The share of people in D.C. experiencing what's called 'deep poverty' -- incomes that are 50% below the poverty line -- actually rose between 2000 and 2012 from 9.4%too 10.4%." At 10.4 percent, the district now has the highest "deep poverty" rate in the U.S. According to census data, the "deep poverty rate" is increasing everywhere, in many places more quickly than in D.C.
Although a postoperative deep infection rate of 5% might seem high to surgeons working in high-income countries, rates of deep infection up to 4% after IM nailing of femoral fractures have been reported even in the UK (Malik et al. 2004) where the severity of trauma is likely to be much less and where there are few resource constraints.
This may be related to catheter duration, because sensitivity analysis (Table 3) demonstrated that studies of catheter use of shorter catheter duration (generally less than 10 days) had a deep infection rate of 0.48%, but when average catheter duration was 74 days the deep infection rate was 2.8%.
