But now the hard work begins, as Bank of England boss Mervyn King prepares to leave the world of rate-cuts behind with a 75 billion-pound ($105.5 billion) plan to buy both government and corporate bonds.
That pretty much describes the world of cut-rate hotel rooms in Paris.
But only people in the lovey-dovey world of adjustable-rate mortgages.
But those opportunities are rapidly evaporating in the weird world of negative rates in which short- and long-term yields are falling in tandem.
In the $330 billion world of auction-rate securities, put bonds backed by education loans in that latter category.
Though we may forget it in our workaday world of interest rates, air conditioning and sporting events, we really do need nature to survive.
At temperature above 30°C which is typical of tropical rice growing areas of the world, rate of oxygenation increases substantially and this considerably reduces the photosynthetic efficiency of C3 plants by upto 40% (Ehleringer and Monson 1993).
Liberia has one of the highest maternal mortality rates among the world with a rate of 994/100,000 live births [ 2].
In Australia and throughout much of the world, rates of obesity continue to climb as do the prevalence of eating disorders, particularly in adolescents.
As a consequence of political pressure to increase punishment for crime, the United States leads the world in rates of incarceration (1).
But this is mainly a world of floating exchange rates.
