Layla had interest in money.

You shall not lend on interest to your brother interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest

To be sure, they merely indicated interest they did not send money.

Lending money at interest was identified with usury, or making money from money rather than from goods and services a distinction that goes back to Aristotle, for whom money was barren.

In September, there was talk that the government would get back its money, with interest.

And it is the real interest rate not the money rate that counts for economic growth.

You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

If interest rates are low, we can attract a great deal of money from the public.

Shouldn t shareholders take more of an interest? After all, it is their money which is at stake.

It makes little sense for the world s poorest countries to lend money to the richest at low interest rates.

We have found that too much loose money from donor funds sometimes interferes with the lowering of interest rates.

Keynes, in his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money , set out the framework that nearly all macroeconomists use today.

Here s why macroeconomic easing, by lowering interest rates or otherwise pumping money into the economy, aims to increase economic activity.

Government can either spend more money itself, or try to stimulate private spending by cutting taxes or lowering interest rates.

Special European facilities, along with the IMF, lend money at below market interest rates, which reduces the extent of austerity required.

But Keynes s theory was incomplete his was a theory of employment, interest, and money. It was not a theory of prices.

In The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Keynes ends by summarizing the strengths and weaknesses of the capitalist system.

Low interest rates on deposits encourage savers, especially households, to invest in fixed assets, rather than keep their money in banks.

Ideally, bank creditors would not lose money, because their fixed interest claims would be converted into bank shares of similar value.

Then why didn't you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?'

As guardians of the nation s money supply and setters of short term interest rates, central bankers have always played a critical role.

Given the terrible returns on savings since 2007, the prospect of continuing low interest rates might make her put even more money aside.

The effort to pump the American economy full of money will run into difficulties on two fronts the exchange rate and interest rates.

Additionally, raising interest rates would be a form of expansionary fiscal policy. This is because Japan has a large public debt, and increasing interest payments on that debt would put extra money in the hands of households.

That advice would lead central banks to keep expanding the money supply and bank reserves even after doing so no longer lowers interest rates.

Keynes s General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, published in 1936, equipped governments with the intellectual tools to counter the unemployment caused by slumps.

Lower interest rates, for example, would free up money so that even countries with tight budget constraints could spend more on growth enhancing investments.

Prime Minister John Diefenbaker central bank monetary policy was directed towards increasing the money supply to cause low interest rates, and have full employment.

You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.

So central banks must also focus on how the fall in the volume of money flowing through financial markets will affect spending, and on how much they should cut interest rates and expand money supply to offset these effects.

That is likely to be a money losing strategy unless an investor is sagacious or lucky enough to sell the bond before interest rates rise.

This is because Japan has a large public debt, and increasing interest payments on that debt would put extra money in the hands of households.

Indeed, economic theory suggests that the interest rate differential should be offset on average by depreciation of the currency with the higher interest rate, the differential thus reflecting the compensation required by investors to hold money in relatively risky currencies.

This became the central feature of the gold standard world a country that was losing gold reserves would tighten interest rates in order to attract money.

Moreover, by pushing interest rates toward zero, the current policy of quantitative easing (increasing money supply by buying government securities) has strong, often regressive, income effects.

This level of protection would induce them to invest their money only if the borrowing country offered a reasonable, limited interest rate premium over safe assets.

If a discrete exchange rate appreciation is to be sustained, it must reflect expected monetary policies tight money and deflation in the appreciated country, and easy money with inflation in the depreciated country. But domestic money growth in China s immature bank based capital market is high and unpredictable, while many interest rates remain officially pegged.

The US housing boom is due, first, to low interest rates, which mean that large amounts of money can be borrowed for mortgages with moderate monthly payments.

The link between Fed bond purchases and the subsequent growth of the money stock changed after 2008, because the Fed began to pay interest on excess reserves.

Do we need HSBC to facilitate global money laundering? Do we need Barclays and UBS to manipulate Libor (a key benchmark for interest rates around the world)?

The cables also show that Saudi money is used to finance television channels which share their views and work for their interest, like the Lebanese MTV channel.

The last legal restrictions on taking interest on money were lifted only in the nineteenth century, when they succumbed to the economic argument that lending money was a service, for which the lender was entitled to charge whatever the market would bear.

Today s capital markets raise money for governments, corporate clients, and individual customers, manage pension funds investments, and bet on the level of interest rates or the stock market.

Colonies were short on expertise. Freedom in money creation or in interest rate policy could mean economic disaster as, indeed, it did in many ex colonies following independence.

It is impossible not to hear in such nonsense the cocksure drumbeat of the Money Power, which has never failed to identify the public interest with its own.