Pardon the brevity of this posting not offered as an explaination but as
food for thought. In his book "Pound's Cantos Declassified" the author,
Philip Furia writes . p.63, "While Pound's suspicions of usury and the
historical black-out of presidential papers may seem like a paranoiac
fantasy, they gain some credibility when we find a contemporary economic
historian, John Kenneth Galbraith, speculating about the suppression of
American monetary history. Galbraith observes how little the general public
knows about the economic views of the founding fathers and ponders the
strange gentlemen's agreement among economic historians to ignore the
successful monetary experiment of the Middle Colonies, one of which,
Maryland, enacted a program of government dividends that Galbraith himself
compares to the Social Credit proposals of Pound's favorite economist, Major
Douglas." Galbraith's book comes highly recommended by this List member.
"Money: Whence It Came, Where it Went" (Boston:Houghton Mifflin, 1975). And
that ain't spamming.
    As long as readers can be convinced that any historic blackout is a
figment of their paranoid imagination it is easier then to convince them
that thye are living in "the best of all possible worlds". Humorously, if
ther is any humor to be found in this situation, Twain wrote that "The man
with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds. ("Following the
Equator").

Charles Moyer