Its historical task , he believed , was to rescue society from usurious money lending and asset stripping , replacing the age-old parasitic tendencies of banking by steering credit to finance productive investment .
In several incidents I know about they have been unnecessarily short-term and unpredictable , ignoring long-term relationships and using excuses to withdraw facilities summarily or charge usurious fees .
Zhou dewen , head of the wenzhou small - and medium-sized enterprises promotion association , a trade group , said ' banks are lending at usurious rates ' in some cases .
行业团体温州中小企业发展促进会的会长周德文说,有些银行的放贷利率高得吓人。
No legislation of later times so utterly and ruthlessly delivers over the debtor to the usurious creditor as the legislation of ancient athens and ancient rome --- and in both cities it arose spontaneously , as customary law , without any compulsion other than the economic .
Third : " I am put usurious beyond the mark and acridity , I want do some of charities to compensate for in the future . " Be turn for ding fayan finally , he hesitates not to say , someone else says he is unjust and gentle do not defend a promise .
They did so after borrowing money at usurious rates of up to 5 percent a month - an 80 percent annual rate - from loan sharks or neighborhood lending pools and then finding that their speculative investments with the money did not pay off .
She spoke of a fast-consolidating property market that is stoking ' social unrest , ' governed by usurious 50 % interest rates from underground banks and , in some cases , she said , inciting suicide .