nominal rate

So why doesn't the Fed simply keep nominal rates low?

This facility is available to students at a very nominal rate.

Further small cuts in nominal rates would be welcome but are not enough.

The committee gave no recommendation on how and when the nominal rates of interest should be revised.

But their traditional businesses are growing at nominal rates of gross domestic product.

For example, is the nominal rate of interest convertible semiannually.

But the highest nominal rate President Bush would accept was 31 percent.

This is because the wealthy use loopholes to avoid their nominal rates.

This method also does not give exactly the nominal rate, but is generally not too far off.

Board was furnished by many of the best families in Milan at merely nominal rates.

Farmers are given electricity at nominal rates so as to stimulate agricultural production.

Inflation, if still a problem, was much lower than in the previous decade and nominal rates of interest were also lower.

The nominal rate of interest has two components.

The real interest rate is the nominal rate less the rate of inflation.

That is what economists call the nominal rate.

Descent slower than the nominal rate reduces useful bottom time, but has no other adverse effect.

Therefore, nominal rates of interest should be zero.

To do this means subtracting the inflation rate from the nominal rate of return.

In consequence, real interest rates - nominal rates adjusted for expected inflation - rose.

"Real interest rates can rise either because nominal rates increase or inflation expectations decrease."

They have free phones all over the city and you can call a share cab to collect you at a nominal rate.

In short, the real interest rate rises above the nominal rate (Temin 56).

Even when we use 'real' rates of interest, i.e. the nominal rate adjusted for inflation, the correlation is still far from clear.

Economists expect the bank to lower rates again, raising the possibility of zero or even negative nominal rates.

Putting it another way, deflation has left Japan with a real interest rate considerably higher than the nominal rate.