7 sentences with “loans”

Thus, investors could build a factory after securing loans at fair interest rates and knew they had a legal system that favoured their enterprise.

The loans France desperately sought had to be found from private banks, merchants and wealthy individuals, and the interest rates it was forced to pay were very high.

In addition, the former members of the Triple Entente themselves owed huge sums to the United States for loans they had received during the war, amounting to some $10 billion.

However, the United States was an ally of Britain and provided military and civilian supplies to the British, along with large amounts of low-interest loans to keep the British economy afloat.

All lands were legally the king's, and his nobles received their lands as "fiefs", essentially loans from the crown that had to be renewed by payments on the death of a landowner before they could be inherited.

Christian Europeans needed loans (as it happens, loans and banking are essential to the functioning of a monetary economy), but they despised the Jews from whom they obtained those loans, hence the origins of some of the most enduring anti-Semitic stereotypes.

Taking advantage of the fragmentation of the Church during the time of the Babylonian captivity and the Great Western Schism, Italian bankers also came to charge interest on loans, becoming the first Christians to defy the Church's prohibition on "usury" on a continuous and regular basis.