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What was the peak U.S. federal funds rate reached in 2023-2024, the highest of that hiking cycle?

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19%

Between 1954 and 2008, the U.S. federal funds rate varied between about 0.25% and what high?

Over that 54-year span, the fed funds rate swung from as low as 0.25% to as high as 19% during the inflation-fighting era of the early 1980s.

Source: Wikipedia, Interest rate (2008) en.wikipedia.org

800%

During its hyperinflation crisis, Zimbabwe's central bank raised interest rates to what extreme level in 2007?

Zimbabwe's central bank pushed rates to 800% in 2007 in a failed attempt to fight runaway hyperinflation.

Source: Wikipedia, Interest rate (2007) en.wikipedia.org

about 2%

By the 2000s, German interest rates had fallen to roughly what level, down from nearly 90% in the 1920s hyperinflation era?

German rates cooled to around 2% by the 2000s, a dramatic contrast to the roughly 90% rates seen during 1920s hyperinflation.

Source: Wikipedia, Interest rate (2024) en.wikipedia.org

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