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usury
noun as in lending money at a high interest rate
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Other pages on his site appear to criticise "fiat money" - commonly used currencies as opposed to gold and digital tokens like Bitcoin - and usury, the charging of interest on loans.
In 2018, he repeated a claim about usury and Ashkenazi Jews similar to the one he made in his speech to Fatah members last month.
“These people were fought because of their social function related to money, usury,” Abbas said in the speech.
Later, he specifies that he was referring to the role of Jews involving "usury, money and so on".
You can read injunctions against usury in the Vedic texts of ancient India, in the sutras of Buddhism and in the Torah.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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