Sentences with phrase «at exorbitant rates»

But hang on, before you buy stuff on tick or start rummaging through the used knickers bin, maybe your credit isn't thaaat bad... And surely borrowing at exorbitant rates — so you can actually buy rather than rent all that stuff — would save you money in the end?!

Insurers assess risk, and if your driving history contains numerous examples of poor judgment and unsafe driving habits, most providers will view you as an unattractive customer, and may either refuse to provide coverage or do so at an exorbitant rate.

The only way to keep down inflation, it insisted, was to back the money supply 100 percent by foreign exchange reserves — mainly dollars raised by selling Russia's public natural resource enterprises or borrowing from Western lenders at exorbitant rates of interest.

With commissions at these exorbitant rates our poor paperboy was out of luck investing back in the day but if he had access to modern tools such as M1 Finance or Robinhood, which offer free stock trades, there would be no problems investing that $ 2.

Thus, online mortgage lending companies are growing at exorbitant rates to meet the demand.

Nevertheless, the big hotel lobby has fought this common - sense solution at every turn, denying the state millions in an effort to protect their billion - dollar businesses from competition, even as they accept millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies and hundreds of millions more to house homeless families at exorbitant rates.

He borrows sums at exorbitant rates from Frank (John Goodman), who takes an interest in the teacher's future, a Mr. Lee (Alvin Ing), a shark named Neville Baraka (Michael Kenneth Williams), plus a cool quarter million from his mother, who issues the sum with the caveat that it's the last time she will ever give him money or even want to see him again.

SchoolHouse Finance buys properties, often selling them for twice or three times the purchase to a buyer, and then leases them back from the buyer in order to then lease them to Imagine charter schools at exorbitant rates.

Maybe you've already got links to it in other sections but it'd be neat to show people where they can DIY the publishing services ASP publishers like to tout at exorbitant rates...

The only option I had was to buy bandwidth at exorbitant rates topping out at 50 MB for $ 20.

In so many cases, a refusal to license technology or a willingness to do so only at exorbitant rates has stifled innovation.

But with home prices running at exorbitant rates, what are their chances?

«We may have to look at... coming up with compartmentalized trailers so we don't continue to fund (the hauler) at an exorbitant rate that the (Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency) is going to end up charging the village,» Trustee Terry Parisian said.