The WSMauberly  lines are still the pithiest ep aphorism anent the Wall Street 
wangles. Carlos Parcelli cited one in his call for essays, but we need both:

usury age-old and age-thick
and liars in public places

wp


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>Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:46:01 +0900
>From: Wayne Pounds <[log in to unmask]>  
>Subject: Re: With usura hath no man a house of good stone & the Home 
Mortgage Crisis  
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
> "Usury is a cancer, Finance a disease" (Intro to The Econ. Nature of U.S., also in 
>Sel Prose 146).
>
>Wayne
>
>---- Original message ----
>>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  
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>
>>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.