By early 2009 many were close to zero, approaching what economists call the "zero lower bound".
After the debt default debacle, my expectations for Obama were close to zero.
"Last year, the chances of this happening were close to zero," said Mr. Trevisan, who trained at what then was Price Waterhouse.
The United States and Israel and most of Europe wanted Iran to have virtually no nuclear capacity, so their preferred outcomes were close to zero.
But for those faculty members determined to stay in Santa Fe, the odds of finding another academic job were close to zero.
But the key point about Japan is that anyone who bought and held those bonds made money, because short rates were close to zero throughout.
Because of Spain's higher inflation, interest rates there were close to zero in real terms.Second, policy and culture interacted to make a housing bubble more likely.
Donald Rumsfeld, who evidently didn't learn very much from Iraq, opined that the chances of Iran agreeing to U.N. requirements for inspection of its nuclear facilities were "close to zero".
Page A21 Business JPMORGAN CUT TIES TO MADOFF Before He Was Arrested JPMorgan Chase has said that its losses related to Bernard L. Madoff, the man accused of an immense Ponzi scheme, were close to zero.
The effect sizes were close to zero for both Internet and offline surveys.
RP and RC were close to zero, indicating no change between time points (Table 6).
