lowest rate of interest

In Brazil, the lowest rate of interest was at 9 per cent., and 12-18 per cent. was nothing unusual.

Thus the Treasury bonds with the lowest rate of interest which has been offered since the War were disposed of, and the question of how to meet the greater part of some $615,000,000 worth of Treasury notes which fell due on March 15, was settled.

In order to place the ranch on a paying basis and take up John Parker's mortgage, therefore, he would have to have a new loan of not less than half a million dollars, and at six per cent., the lowest rate of interest he could hope to obtain, his annual interest charge would be thirty thousand dollars.

That is the corner stone of our national credit, the trifling price we pay to command the lowest rate of interest of any great power in the world.