1. High interest rates make credit expensive.

2. Something approaching a lynch mob has been gathering against the Chancellor for even daring to consider higher interest rates.

3. High interest rates are a brake on the economy.

4. Higher interest rates are already pinching the housing industry.

5. High interest rates have stunted economic growth.

6. The smaller local lenders charge high interest rates.

7. The industry is being crippled by high interest rates.

8. High interest rates help to keep borrowing down.

9. High interest rates are continuing to depress the economy.

10. The property sector was another casualty of the lurch towards higher interest rates.

11. Higher interest rates will drive small firms out of business.

12. High interest rates can be a disincentive to expanding a business.

13. With job losses and high interest rates, a lot of people are finding themselves in very straitened circumstances these days.

14. High interest rates are merely a crutch for the country's ailing economy.

15. The government's policy is higher tax and higher interest rates. It's a double whammy.

16. It is feared that higher interest rates might choke off economic recovery.

17. Higher interest rates will act as a check on public spending.

18. But the high interest rate policy and squeeze on retailers hit hard.

19. High interest rate is killing small business.

20. But it provides a high interest rate to compensate people's loss from inflation.

21. It is a high interest rate on housing loans that they are available.

22. But even if the such high interest rate,[http:///high interest rate.html] all developers can loan by no means.

23. Of course, a high interest rate was charged, the tenant could not repay his debt, and lost his own small plot of ground.

24. Usury Illegal practice of charging an excessively high interest rate on loans.

25. Store cards have taken a hammering in recent years because of their high interest rates.

26. Customers are drawing in their horns at a time of high interest rates.

27. A lot of businesses are being hurt by the current high interest rates.

28. It is universally acknowledged by the financial circle that consumption credit yields high interest rate and net asset returns with scattered risks.

29. The credit card company is notorious for having an unreasonably high interest rate.

30. The strength of the pound increase the possibility of high interest rate.

31. That shark lent me money at very high interest rate.

32. What it has done is to replace the high interest rate financing in the gray market.