Sentence examples for rates are in effect from inspiring English sources

Commercial banks, by charging one another higher borrowing rates, are in effect doing the bank's work for it, they said.

Some critics have argued that the higher interest rates are, in effect, a cut in student aid.

Hong Kong's interest rates are in effect set by America's Federal Reserve.

The Federal Reserve found it would have to lower short-term interest rates by 40 basis points to soften the impact of bigger capital buffers on growth an impossibility now that rates are, in effect, at zero.

Killarney Lodge just off Highway 60 on Lake of Two Rivers in Algonquin Park; (705) 633-5551; fax (705) 633-5667; on the Web at www.killarneylodge.com, has 42 rooms in 32 lakefront cabins, one-bedroom cabins range from $96 to $128 a person double occupancy a night including a parking permit and all meals; higher rates are in effect later in the season.

The downside, notes Kent, is that any investment gains, along with the deferred pay, are taxed as ordinary income at whatever (maybe higher) rates are in effect at withdrawal.

For one thing, the ECB has made clear that the cut in interest rates is in effect the last one.

Even with 250percentt of Medicare rates as the benchmark, Ms. Jaff owed four times more than she had paid when Ingenix rates were in effect, or $3,137 of a $4,200 doctor's bill that had increased by only 13percentt.

And it's not just pointy-headed economists saying this; business leaders like Google's Eric Schmidt are saying the same thing, and the bond market, by buying U.S. debt at such low interest rates, is in effect pleading for a more expansionary policy.

But the New York politicians added insult to injury by deciding that taxpayers who want to use the 100% of prior year's taxes "safe harbor" for 2009 will have to pay 100% of what they would have owed in 2008, had the higher 2009 rates been in effect in 2008.

"An economy that is depressed even with zero interest rates is, in effect, an economy in which the public is trying to save more than businesses are willing to invest.