On the record
No! at an interest of six hundred per cent per annum, payable by the day!
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “No! at an interest of six hundred per cent per annum, payable by the day!”
Editor's note · Context
Burke highlights the extreme interest rates imposed on the impoverished, illustrating the severity of their financial plight.
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