Dear Group:

May I be a countervailing voice on the two earlier posts about Ben  
Stein's mention of Pound in the New York Times? I copy an email I sent  
to Mr. Stein, as follows:

Re yr Feb 10 piece in the NYT on free lunches, impossibility thereof.  
It's just a tab too glib to fix Pound as an anti-semite, altho it is  
true he thought the Muss a big fellow. (So did a lot of people while  
he was succeeding.) And why is being an anti-Semite such a big crime?  
Anyway, I submit Pound wasn't one. He just saw that the Jews  
authorized (in Deuteronomy) the practice of usury on gentiles by their  
fellow Jews, and Pound thought that dirty pool. As do I. But leave  
aside such tiny cavils. Thank you for praising Pound. Dylan worship is  
a joke as against EP, but you can't expect a hopelessly unliterary  
people who adore mammon to see that. Usury is the great crime of the  
ages. It brought down Rome, England, and is now bringing down us. To  
name but a few. EP's is a name "not to be worn out with the ages."  
Count on it. I am proposing that all interest (usury) be abolished and  
a campaign against it be instigated at the highest PR levels, quoting,  
for starters, the 15th Psalm. Oh, well. Best regards, Tom White  
Odessa, TX

As to Ron Paul, just today it seems his campaign is essentially over.  
I don't blame him for pulling back. Ahead lies . . . what?
And Ron, although wonderful in so many ways, is not a wise man on  
economics, nor is the von Mises institute wise. They both "believe in"  
gold. I would suggest as antidote to that ancient and disastrous folly  
the position of the American Monetary Institute http:// 
www.monetary.org/. Institute. Ignorance is killing us, just as EP said  
it would. Tom White