Alphaville Books' challenge to the EP list to bring our man to the fore of the 
current financial fray didn't produce any results that I can see--in spite of the 
appeal to our vanity ("I know you've thought about it"). Why is that (besides the 
fact that we have have other potatoes to roast)? Does everyone know something 
I don't know?

I was hoping that the hour for Giano Accame's <Ezra Pound Economista> had 
come. I'd better start that idea as a new thread if no one's reading this one.

Wayne Pounds
Tokyo

---- 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.