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• EQUILIBRIUM REAL INTEREST RATE
  
  The rate that would be consistent with the full employment of labor and industrial capacity, and with real GDP being at its long-run potential level. This rate is needed as a benchmark to judge whether a given real interest rate is expansionary or contractionary.
  
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