Sentence examples for instead of interest from inspiring English sources

We will also have a new president, who seems to be hinting about lowering taxes instead of interest rates.

"When I told people where I come from, instead of interest, I many times received pity," Statovci told me recently.

First, it is now targeting the level of banks' reserves (their deposits at the central bank) instead of interest rates.

In other words, investors are flocking to the safest companies out there, and the ones that will behave the most like bonds, paying them dividends instead of interest.

On the mortgage market, institutions buy the house or the commercial real estate; the buyer then pays rent instead of interest.

On the plus side, those who stay in the black will now receive £5 every month in their account instead of interest.

In normal times the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding gold, instead of interest-bearing bank deposits or government bonds, is high.

With compound interest, instead of paying interest on a loan, you invest your money and reap the rewards of your money working for you.

Thus, when we use an interest rate of 5% instead of average interest rate of 6.65%, the returns from investing into a single doctor equals US$314,4722, i.e. [US$65,9977 × (1+0.05)].

"By fostering gridlock, the U.S. Constitution increases the likelihood that policies will reflect broad, unorganized interests instead of the interests of narrow, organized groups," writes Marcus Ethridge for the Cato Institute.

Informants resented " self-dealing" by officials, that is, taking advantage of one's position in transactions and acting for one's own interests instead of the interests of the organization or beneficiaries.