Word: low-interest
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...directors of a state-run finance company reportedly gave low-interest loans to all of their rich friends...
...1960s the U.S. Government helped the thrifts by letting them pay depositors higher interest rates than commercial banks. By 1975 there were 5,407 savings institutions, with deposits of $395 billion. By the end of the '70s, however, they were rocked by high interest rates, which reduced the value of their low-interest mortgage loans. Moreover, the Government removed ceilings on the rates that institutions could pay depositors and thus forced the savings industry into competition with commercial banks. Many savings institutions collapsed or merged with stronger partners. Though the number of thrifts has fallen to 3,746, deposits have...
...Government has declared the Georgia and South Carolina coastal region an economic disaster area, which will give the fishermen a chance to obtain low-interest loans. The price of shrimp for consumers, however, is not likely to rise by much. In fact, the wholesale price has plummeted 40% in the past year to about $4 per lb. because of good catches in Texas and Louisiana and increased imports from as far away as Thailand...
...exchange for providing the low-interest loan, the financing authority is requiring HRE to keep one-quarter of the apartments in the building under rent control during the 15 years it will take to pay back the mortgage...
...global central bank capable of creating its own money. His ideas were deemed too visionary, and the fund's role was limited to helping member states-45 at the beginning, 146 today-ride out balance of payments difficulties. A country in deficit could apply to the IMF for low-interest loans. In return, the IMF required the debtor government to put its economic house in order. When the deficits were "structural," reflecting permanent changes in a country's terms of trade, such adjustments could be painful: currency devaluation, tax increases, reduced government spending, tight controls on monetary growth...