"Usury is a cancer, Finance a disease" (Intro to The Econ. Nature of U.S., also in
Sel Prose 146).
Wayne
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>Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:55:27 -0400
>From: Alphaville Books <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: With usura hath no man a house of good stone & the Home Mortgage
Crisis
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>Usury age old and age thick/
>Mr. Paulson, tear down this Wall Street
>
>Pound is one of the few poets in recorded history whose poetry has any
>bearing on the current ‘crises’ precipitated by Wall Street greed and
>avarice. What would Pound think of the current ‘Bail Out’ of Wall Street
>or, in general the world of debt we now float on?
>
>What do the current debt crises have to tell us about ‘usury age old and
>age thick.’? I know you’ve thought about it.
>
>Pound is no longer here to instruct us on the negative consequences of
>the latest debt instruments, so it’s up to those who have studied his
>writings to take the opportunity and re-articulate his position in light
>of current events---to re-articulate both the nature of usury as Pound
>intended its expression but also the nature of evil.
>
>FlashPoint Magazine http://www.flashpointmag.com/ would like to extend
>the opportunity to the Pound community to submit pieces on Pound and the
>Current Debt Crises. C’mon and pitch in. How many times at parties were
>you forced to defend Pound from charges that his economics was ‘just
>wacky.’ But whose economics is wackier---Pound’s or the Street? Now really.
>
>Its a new version of the old Nazi bugaboo, where Pound who actually
>killed no one is pilloried by the very people that brought hundreds of
>Nazi murderers into the US after the war and made at least one head of
>NASA, who trilled "I aim for the stars and sometimes I hit London" and
>his Peenemunde pal, Dornberger.
>
>We plan a new issue of FP sometime next spring just about the time the
>next wave of white collar felonious behavior is due to be ‘uncovered’ by
>are ‘free and unfettered press.’
>
>Actually, the plan for this issue is to focus on Finnegans Wake and we
>already have a number of pieces committed. So if you’d like to submit a
>piece on Pound and the Wake, we can include it in that issue. If we get
>few pieces on Pound and the Street, we’ll addend them to the Wake issue.
>
>However, if the request for pieces on Pound and Wall Street results in a
>'wealth' of submissions we will immediately do a more timely Special
>Issue focusing on the usurious s/henanigans/ of our wacky, Wall Street
>brethren.
>
>FP currently has over 800,000 thousand title page hits and literally
>tens of millions of page hits. These numbers may mean little to
>taxpayers facing a $1,000,000,000,000,000 bailout which the bankers and
>the Street will promptly turn around and steal, but you will be read at FP.
>
>If you’re interested contact me, Carlo Parcelli at
>[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Pieces
>can be of any length and any energy level.
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