rate of interest
Example Sentences
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In a financial panic, Bagehot prescribes, a central bank should lend freely to solvent banks against good collateral at a high rate of interest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
Someone offering you a higher fixed rate of interest on bonds, at a moment when the economy is in free fall, is someone offering you free money.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 24, 2025
The effective rate of interest on U.S. mortgage debt was just 3.8% at the end of last year.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2024
The rate of interest on her student loan debt is 6.25%.
From BBC • Nov. 2, 2023
One way was by lending money to Christians, often at a high rate of interest.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
