Usurious

However, I realized early on that if there was no bailout and banks began to fail; unemployment started to rise into the high double digits; and credit companies jacked their interest rates up into what most of us would call usurious rates, that even I might not be able to pay my mortgage should I be laid off and not be able to find another job because no one was hiring. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Though contracts of this kind and under such a form cannot strictly be called usurious, yet, nevertheless, the vendors incur guilt, unless they are really doubtful whether the wares might be worth more or less at the time of payment. ❋ George O'Brien (N/A)

The tears in her voice were the payment of what must be called a usurious speculation of love. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

In the US, the Democratic Representative Maxine Waters has introduced a draft bill called the Stop Vultures Act. It would ban vulture funds from seeking "usurious" payments -- defined as anything more than the purchase price of the debt plus 6 percent a year interest. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They are being charged "usurious" interest rates because the government has caused interest rates to rise to control inflation. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Depending on the faction, it demands debt relief by suspension of all interest payments (repay capital only); restructuring of debts for 12 to 15 year repayment with the first five years interest free; return of all previously seized property and equipment; and jail sentences for bankers who charge "usurious" interest rates. ❋ Unknown (2000)

He called the higher rates "usurious," and the second avalanche an avoidable mistake. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of the favorite claims of payday lending opponents is that payday loans are "usurious". ❋ Unknown (2009)

London Citizens, an alliance of religious leaders and civic groups in the capital, has been campaigning for a cap on "usurious" rates of commercial lending. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the US, the Democratic Representative Maxine Waters has introduced a draft bill called the Stop Vultures Act. It would ban vulture funds from seeking "usurious" payments - defined as anything more than the purchase price of the debt plus six per cent a year interest. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Desperate companies turn to 'usurious' hedge funds (hedge funds goes loan-shark) ❋ Unknown (2008)

• Twin Rivers Middle School student Stephen Jenkins, eliminated on "usurious" ❋ Unknown (2010)

The debit card business is an oligopoly-driven, secretive, usurious system that shafts American consumers along with the small businesses that are the engines of jobs and growth. ❋ RJ (2011)

All of it: a seamless garment of gone-amock healthcare and education schemes, prevention of pregnancies and safe-legal-rare abortions in their annual millions, Mengelian experimentation with defenseless human beings, redefinition of the nature and purposes of human sexuality, sowing of division within the US Catholic Church and among Evangelicals, enforcement of usurious contracts, cultivation of new neo-colonial killing fields ... and the list goes on. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When ignored, they lead to such things as reported abuses in "micro-lending" -- perhaps the best known such scheme, too frequently overburdening the needy with scandalous practices and, in some cases, usurious interest rates from social enterprise charities and unconscionable ones from commercial entities. ❋ Mark Rosenman (2011)

The government has begun ratcheting up restrictions, fearing that borrowers are being buried by usurious interest rates. ❋ Unknown (2010)