installment buying
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Federal Reserve Board this week promised the public its first taste in over four years of the old American custom of installment buying.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Italy, auto sales are down 10% so far this year, largely because of such government anti-inflation measures as higher auto and gasoline taxes and restrictions on installment buying.
From Time Magazine Archive
The picture is much the same in home mortgages, installment buying and personal loans.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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