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  2. Real interest rate - Wikipedia

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    In the case of contracts stated in terms of the nominal interest rate, the real interest rate is known only at the end of the period of the loan, based on the realized inflation rate; this is called the ex-post real interest rate. Since the introduction of inflation-indexed bonds, ex-ante real interest rates have become observable. [2]

  3. History of Federal Open Market Committee actions - Wikipedia

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    The effective federal funds rate over time, through December 2023. This is a list of historical rate actions by the United States Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The FOMC controls the supply of credit to banks and the sale of treasury securities.

  4. Federal funds rate - Wikipedia

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    Inflation (blue) compared to federal funds rate (red) Federal funds rate vs unemployment rate In the United States, the federal funds rate is the interest rate at which depository institutions (banks and credit unions) lend reserve balances to other depository institutions overnight on an uncollateralized basis.

  5. Federal Reserve Economic Data - Wikipedia

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    The economic data published on FRED are widely reported in the media and play a key role in financial markets. In a 2012 Business Insider article titled "The Most Amazing Economics Website in the World", Joe Weisenthal quoted Paul Krugman as saying: "I think just about everyone doing short-order research — trying to make sense of economic issues in more or less real time — has become a ...

  6. Category:Interest rates - Wikipedia

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    About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; ... Interest rates is included in the JEL classification codes as JEL: ... Real interest rate;

  7. U.S. prime rate - Wikipedia

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    The prime rate is used often as an index in calculating rate changes to adjustable rate mortgages (ARM) and other variable rate short term loans. It is used in the calculation of some private student loans. Many credit cards with variable interest rates have their rate specified as the prime rate (index) plus a fixed value commonly called the ...

  8. Interest rate - Wikipedia

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    The annual interest rate is the rate over a period of one year. Other interest rates apply over different periods, such as a month or a day, but they are usually annualized. The interest rate has been characterized as "an index of the preference . . . for a dollar of present [income] over a dollar of future income". [1]

  9. History of monetary policy in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Instruments of monetary policy have included short-term interest rates and bank reserves through the monetary base. [1]With the creation of the Bank of England in 1694, which acquired the responsibility to print notes and back them with gold, the idea of monetary policy as independent of executive action began to be established. [2]