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 ---- Original message ---- >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.