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• s  greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
  usurious interest rate

• A business can be acquired in any number of ways, from foreclosure on a usurious loan to outright purchase.
• Borrowers could text the company their requests and have money transferred into their bank accounts almost instantly, albeit at usurious interest rates of up to 800% a month.
• So yes, while we're still willing to work ourselves to death for the privilege of paying off our usurious credit cards, we can no longer look contemptuously at the land of 246 .

• exorbitant
• extortionate
• outrageous
• steep
• unconscionable

News & Articles

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• Sun sets on Western Sky’s payday loans in Maryland
  &via=&related=DolcePixel" The Maryland Division of Financial Regulation issued a final order Thursday telling an online payday lender to cease lending and collecting on loans to the state’s consumers, saying the unlicensed company had been charging usurious annual personal-loan rates of between 120 percent and 1,825 percent. &via=&related=DolcePixel"
  June 13, 2013 - The Daily Record
• Fannie, Freddie Shareholders Roll Dice, Sue Uncle Sam
  Investors on Monday sued the federal government, claiming $41 billion, saying its takeover of the GSEs was 'unprecedented and usurious.' Click to view a price quote on FNMA . Click to research the Real Estate industry.        
  June 11, 2013 - TheStreet.com

Quotes

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• Charles Schumer in Newsday
  States should have the right to protect their residents from usurious and excessive interest rates, and I will keep fighting to stop the practice of allowing those states with weak consumer protection to set the standard for the rest of the... Sheldon Whitehouse http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Whitehouse&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGVxxIw6JT3fjSvEr3W_58hJqOCbA Credit.com News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.credit.com/news/credit-debt/2010-05-20/amendment-aimed-at-capping-credit-card-rates-fails-in-senate.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE0r-7UrcpALsn8TLG9Phmd7k2AYQ May 20, 2010 106784 139983 usurious The subprime market is the wild west of mortgage loans, and it's time we bring a sheriff into town," Schumer said. "The first step is making sure that borrowers are protected from these usurious lenders."
• Cheri DiNovo in Peterborough Examiner
  It's simply business as usual for all the usurious payday lenders across the province,Di Novo said, who represents the Toronto riding of Parkdale-High Park.