Basal metabolic rate
discount rate (apex)
Federal Funds Rate
monetary policy.........
The Federal Funds rate abbriviated as Fed Funds is the overnight loan rate between banks. The Discount Window is the Federal Reseve Bank of New York's overnight interst rate charged to banks from the Federal Reserve, called the discount window rate.
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The short term interest rate
Policy rate is the rate of interest that banks charge. It can be a rate charged from credit cards, insurance policies, savings accounts, checking accounts, or other similar things.
Basal Metabolic Rate
The impact on the federal funds rate, by any policy, would depend on which policy is in question. Some policies will cause the federal funds rate to increase while other policies will cause the federal funds rate to decrease.
Monetary Policy
In economics, the policy rate (policy interest rate) is the short-term interest rate that the central bank manipulates through open-market operations. Open-market operations include the sale and purchase of bonds. During times of recession, the central bank favors a low policy rate that would help close the GDP gap. When a country is experiencing heavy economic growth, the central bank tends to favor a higher policy rate that would curb inflation.