Sentence examples for rate the rate from inspiring English sources

Or to put it another way, unemployment seems to have been pushed below its "natural rate"—the rate at which wage inflation remains stable.

But the only rates it directly controls are the federal funds rate, the rate at which banks lend money to each other, and the discount rate, the rate at which it lends directly to banks.

Lowering the fed funds rate — the rate at which banks lend to one another — will not hurt.

It cut the overnight federal funds rate, the rate at which banks lend reserves to one another, to almost zero.

And, last Friday, that's exactly what it did, cutting the discount rate — the rate at which it lends to banks — by half a point.

On Friday, the Federal Reserve tried to quell this panic by announcing a surprise cut in the discount rate, the rate at which it lends money to banks.

Later in August, after the Federal Reserve cut the discount rate — the rate at which it lends to banks — the markets calmed down; but Niederhoffer's woes continued.

The committee also lowered the federal funds rate, the rate it charges banks for overnight loans, by three-quarters of a point, to the current 2.25percentt.

Last year, the prime rate (the rate at which banks lend money to their most valued customers) peaked at 91/2percentnt.

From the third item, we compute the overshoot rate--the rate at which the intervals give nonsensical results.

It also reported that its churn rate -- the rate at which it loses customers -- declined to 1.7percentt from 2.3percentt a year earlier.