Monetary policy

Four times on this page el tipo means a rate: el tipo de interés, el tipo de cambio, el tipo natural. It has nothing to do with rates in itself — el tipo is the type or kind of a thing, and a rate is one kind of measure. The same word is also a man one does not name: vino un tipo preguntando por ti, a bloke, a fellow. So the sentence ese tipo no me gusta is about a person if you are in a bar and about a rate if you are in a bank.