Sentence examples for absurd interest from inspiring English sources

While researching a story on the brokers squeezing poor households for barely-legal fees (on top of the absurd interest rates) what has repelled me most is finding out about the "ping tree".

Mispriced quotes, front running, excessive fees and absurd interest rates on your debit balance.

That is absurd: the national interest has to be defined through democratic debate.

It's a complicated beast: it gives the Securities and Exchange Commission new oversight over the rating agencies; makes it easier to bring lawsuits against them; and tries to minimize the absurd conflicts of interest — starting with the fact that the rating agencies are paid by the issuers of the bonds they are rating.

When one of the book's characters announces a plan to study Elizabethan drama, psychology and detection simultaneously, the reply is: "An absurd combination of interests.

The negative numbers were sometimes seen as even more problematic, and in many cases negative solutions of equations were still considered by many to be "absurd" or "devoid of interest".

In the course of that hearing it became clear that several of the justices, and possibly a majority, are political creatures pure and simple, willing to embrace any argument, no matter how absurd, that serves the interests of Team Republican.

Time and again, when it comes to issues like climate change, we see fossil fuel interests dictating absurd policies which are recklessly destructive of life.

Philippe Lamberts, the Belgian Green MEP who helped devise the restrictions, said it was clear the UK was failing to implement EU law and accused the coalition of having no interest in halting "absurd remuneration packages".

He accused the government of having no interest in halting "absurd remuneration packages".

But few voters are content to have their economies run as charities (and a good thing for economists that they aren't, as that would make a baseline assumption of rational self-interest look pretty absurd).A generation of global integration has been very good for the world's developing economies.