Definitions
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- noun The action of
lending money .
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Examples
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But the police unions say it would cripple inquiries into offences such as moneylending and drug-trafficking which frequently lead investigators to organised criminals and terrorists.
Silvio Berlusconi's 'gag law' sparks media strike in Italy 2010
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Because Jews were discriminated against in medieval Europe, they were often driven into professions such as moneylending and banking which were looked down upon or forbidden to Christians...
National Geographic on IQ Evolution Steve Sailer 2005
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Because Jews were discriminated against in medieval Europe, they were often driven into professions such as moneylending and banking which were looked down upon or forbidden to Christians...
Archive 2005-07-17 Steve Sailer 2005
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People won't get wise to "moneylending" till there's REVOLUTION, and it will require an able LEADERSHIP.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008
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Professor Henry Harpending (Chair of Anthropology at Univ of Utah) has claimed that the hundreds of years of being restricted to the moneylending profession in medieval Europe led to a selection for higher IQ in European Jews.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Approaching Arguments That Have A Racist Past 2010
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Why didn't Labour put massive controls on these moneylending bloodsuckers when they were in power?
UK debt misery revealed: tower block where living in the red is a way of life 2011
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Why didn't Labour put massive controls on these moneylending bloodsuckers when they were in power?
UK debt misery revealed: tower block where living in the red is a way of life 2011
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The claim was that moneylending was a highly cognitively demanding profession (lots of complex deals, recordkeeping, and mathematical concepts ...) and that Jews who were the most successful in their cognitively demanding financial occupation had the most offspring, thus higher IQs were selected for.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Approaching Arguments That Have A Racist Past 2010
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The claim was that moneylending was a highly cognitively demanding profession lots of complex deals, recordkeeping, and mathematical concepts... and that Jews who were the most successful in their cognitively demanding financial occupation had the most offspring, thus higher IQs were selected for.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Approaching Arguments That Have A Racist Past 2010
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Professor Henry Harpending Chair of Anthropology at Univ of Utah has claimed that the hundreds of years of being restricted to the moneylending profession in medieval Europe led to a selection for higher IQ in European Jews.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Approaching Arguments That Have A Racist Past 2010
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