installment buying
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The picture is much the same in home mortgages, installment buying and personal loans.
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Consumer debt, the kind that results from credit-card purchases, installment buying and other small loans, has jumped since 1975, from $197 billion to $289 billion.
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The Fed was not worried by a sharp rise in installment buying, which is usually the last form of credit to be affected by high interest rates.
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To curb the country's 8.3% inflation, controls have also been put on private lending, investment and installment buying.
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Into the American economy thus came the now-familiar installment buying.
From The Invention of the Sewing Machine by Cooper, Grace Rogers
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