The failure of the one alarmed the public as to the stability of the other, and the Jacobites and the Lombard Street rival money-lenders lent their cordial aid to increase the panic.
Plutarch develops the argument that money is sterile, and condemns the practices of contemporary money-lenders as unjust.
In the second place, the lenders were almost invariably members of the trading community, who were the very people in whose favour a recompense for lucrum cessans would be allowed.
It is not realistic to expect foreign institutions and lenders (such as the IMF) to provide Russia with another 45 billion roubles.
If they are forced to lend to the bank's clients, they often ignore the quality of the credit takers, the yields, the maturities and other considerations, which normally tend to interest lenders very much.
The religion of Islam forbids lenders to charge interest on the credits that they provide.
But the money-lenders will have to be squared first.
The squire squeezed his tenants for all they were worth, and now the money-lenders are squeezing him.
From that time forth the oppressed poor people rejoiced many a time as the avaricious merchants and extortionate money lenders lost their treasures.
Greek bankers or money-lenders exacted as much as thirty-six per cent.
The Jews, and the Lombards, who had been taught in their schools, were almost the only money-lenders of Europe from the twelfth to the fifteenth century.
The goldsmiths in those times acted as money-lenders and pawnbrokers.
The early bankers were for the most part merely lenders of money, and this species of banker was called into existence very early in the world’s history.
PNG will receive loans totaling $350 million over the next two years from a variety oflenders including the Fund, the Bank, the Australian Government, and the Japanese Export-Import Bank.
The three lenders are strenuously endeavouring to realise, the thousand-pounder being prostrate with affright, but although the investments under normal conditions would fetch a good premium, not a penny can be raised in any direction.
If marginal social capital, consisting of commodity and measured in some way in units of kind, has the power to add to itself in a year one unit for every twenty, lenders will claim about that amount, and borrowers will pay it.
It takes strategy on the part of both borrowers and lenders to make the loan rate correspond to the marginal earnings.
A period must elapse sufficient to establish the fact of this downward trend, and to enable the struggles of lenders and borrowers to overcome habit in fixing a new rate that will correspond to the new earning power of monetary capital.
If he did not do so, he would have difficulty in borrowing more, since banks or other lenders do not loan to empty-handed men.
Jewish and Swiss money-lenders are today the real proprietors of Alsace; and proof of their excellent judgment is to be found in the fact that they have no thought of acquiring landed estates: they prefer to invest their capital.
See Musalmans and Money-lenders in the Punjab, Thorburn.
The story of this crisis demonstrates that, by 1844, the money-lenders had become autocratic in London.
Although the conventions of popular government are still preserved, capital is at least as absolute as under the Caesars, and, among capitalists, the money-lenders form an aristocracy.
From the crusades to Waterloo, the producers dominated Europe, the money-lenders often faring hardly, as is proved by the treatment of the Jews.
Probably, however, Florence was more purely a monied centre than either Venice or Genoa, and no money-lenders of the Middle Ages ever equalled the great Florentine banking families.
Whenever money is cheap at any given centre, and borrowers are bidding only low rates for its use, lenders seek a more profitable field for the employment of their capital.
During such periods, accordingly, borrowers on the whole get the better of lenders and make high profits.
Many projected ventures are relinquished or postponed, either because borrowers conclude that the interest would absorb too much of their profits, or because lenders refuse to extend their commitments farther.
Workingmen are commonly credited with less foresight than capitalists, and nevertheless they seem, according to the figures, to have succeeded better in making bargains with employers of labour than did lenders with employers of capital.
Similar retrenchment of living expenses must have been practised by the families of many owners of land and lenders of capital.
Conversely, when loaning operations seem profitable but rates seem to be on the upturn, lenders will do their best to put their money out in the form of "sterling loans.
A former bank examiner in the state of California, himself a farmer, writes: The farmers of California do not to any considerable extent make a practice of borrowing money from local banks or money lenders for short periods.
Farmers as a rule think that rates are fixed arbitrarily by the bankers and other money lenders in the community.
At present the lenders are organised; whereas the borrower stands alone.
The lenders were life annuitants, and the interest of the loan was secured on new duties on beer and other liquors.
Shall we, then, postpone relief to the suffering industries of this country till we can secure from the privileged classes, from the money-lenders of the world, an agreement to cease their exactions?
All movements for the increase of the monetary circulation are ascribed by the money-lenders and creditor classes to the unworthy desire on the part of the debtors to escape their just obligations.
The money lenders had exacted money quite relentlessly from some, who needed large funds on account of the political disputes and the wars.
A few wealthy merchants became money- lenders for interest, despite the law against usury.
Tudor times, the writing of risks had been carried on as a sideline by merchants, bankers, and even money-lenders in their private offices and was a private transaction between individuals.
When, however, the Latins came to terms and were now in a quiescent state, the lenders proceeded to treat the debtors more harshly and the populace for this reason again rebelled and even came running in a throng into the senate.
It is curious to lind among the most successful money- lenders several princesses consecrated to the sun-god.
If, therefore, the lenders obey the law, he, and such as he, must fail.
They are disregarded, since lenders will loan or withhold their money according to their own keen sense of interest.
For, though "English bankers are not themselves very great lenders to foreign countries, they are great lenders to those who lend.
Now a great practical difference is made in the course of economic life by the decisions of lenders to lend to men who plan new things, instead of to men who plan old things.
They are known to be one of the biggest lenders at the "money post" on the Stock Exchange.
That borrowing and lending may increase, it is not enough that lenders have confidence in the ability of borrowers to repay.
The Portuguese were the peddlers, shopkeepers, and money-lenders for the community, as well as the officials of the government.
European money lenders stood ready to stimulate this tendency by offering easy credit facilities in return for careless promises of exaggerated interest rates.
I thought that the money-lenders perhaps knew; but there are some things even little Beechy can't say.
For just to the extent that such a movement of prices comes to be more or less regularly in the same direction, both borrowers and lenders are able to take it into account, and as experience shows, do take it into account.
They gather loanable funds, reduce hoarding, make money move more rapidly, and create a central market between borrowers and lendersfor the sale of credit.
Those money lenders who have eliminated chance as far as possible and have taken a low rate of interest lose little; the risk-takers who draw their incomes from dividends on stock or from bonds of a less stable kind, often lose much.
A group of private agencies such as life insurance and mortgage loan companies and local money lenders has supplied in somewhat costly ways the need of farm credits.
Money is, in general, for both borrowers and lenders the most convenient standard of deferred payments.
There was a time when the states of Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and their neighbors were filled with resentment against the money-lenders of the Eastern states.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lenders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
