usurious interest

People used to denounce banks for charging usurious interest rates.

Their debts are inflated by outrageous prices for food and usurious interest rates.

Also, the loans came with usurious interest rates, so high in fact, that the bankers wouldn't admit to granting them.

All of it, including the usurious interest.

Every debt he owed in the world, including the pawnshop, with its usurious interest, amounted to less than a hundred dollars.

This 'Holy Father' doth allow the lending of money at usurious interest!

It is a federal offense to use violence or threats to collect usurious interest (or any other sort).

The uncertainty of recovering his money makes the lender exact the same usurious interest which is usually required from bankrupts.

Still, as at all businesses in the Philippines, the falling peso and often usurious interest rates have required fast footwork.

He had begun life as an obscure financier by lending small sums of money to workmen at usurious interest.

We have to identify the factors other than usurious interest rates and deficiency of aggregate demand which can make investment projects unattractive to enterprises.

Carefully he counted out enough yen to repay what he had borrowed from the sarakin the night before including the usurious interest.

To some extent it's a vicious circle: because investors believe default is likely, they demand usurious interest rates that may well push the country into default.

Credit card companies in some countries have been accused by consumer organizations of lending at usurious interest rates and making money out of frivolous "extra charges".

The datu, themselves being forced to pay tribute, started fining their timawa harshly for arbitrary reasons or else lent them money at usurious interest rates.

"He couldn't tell me the amount, but he was quite certain there was no usurious interest rate, and he categorically denies any threats of physical harm." '

Starting entrepreneurs complain they are choked by taxes, bribes and usurious interest rates, and any new kiosk or cafe is certain of a visit by racketeers demanding protection money.

Recently, microfinance has come under fire in the state of Andhra Pradesh due to allegations of MFIs using coercive recollection practices and charging usurious interest rates.

Pope John XXII had started in 1317 a rigorous campaign against the Jews and had publicly declared that usurious interest should not be paid to Jews.

Nobody who favored this bill chose to see that the bankruptcy epidemic had been produced in large measure by the banks, or that the real hidden costs were the usurious interest rates these banks charged borrowers.

Winfield also denied Spira's contention that Winfield had threatened to kill him if he didn't repay the loan plus usurious interest, a threat, Spira said, that led him to "disappear" from the beginning of 1982 until April 1983.

The State Attorney General's Office reached a $100,000 settlement yesterday with a Delaware company that was accused in a civil suit of charging usurious interest rates on a loan to a Morris County lottery winner, state officials said yesterday.

THE carefully constructed image of H & R Block as America's trusted tax preparer was marred a decade ago, when consumer advocates accused the company of marketing advances on customers' tax refunds at usurious interest rates.

In 1884 the local newspaper L'Aquilonia reviewed the causes of emigration of peasants from Agnone and concluded that the two main factors were excessive taxes on consumers' goods and usurious interest rates that at times surpassed 20 percent in the town.

Iris E. Greene, a nurse's aide, desperately needed help several years ago after she had paid usurious interest rates - $3,300 in installments for $2,800 worth of furniture - at a store here, and still had it repossessed for having missed a few payments following a heart attack.