THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL

Usury and the ruin of civilisation

Christ expels the money changers from the temple, Cecco del Caravaggio, 1610

Either make the tree good and its fruit good: or make the tree evil, and its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known.

Christ, from the Gospel of St Matthew, Chapter 12

I have been meaning to talk about the wickedness of the financial system which funds the replacement of our civilisation for some time.

Today I bring this novel effort to get on all the naughty lists with a review of a new book about usury¹.

David Hunt’s Something for Nothing is the sort of book which is an education. It is brief, precise and has an explanatory power which reaches far beyond its subject.

We are told by the moneylenders that the temple belongs to them these days. Market worshippers from Ben Shapiro to the Austrian School will tell you that the mere mention of usury as a moral evil is a relic of the middle ages.

O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart t…