Greetings to all,

As a long time member of this list, please excuse me if I use it on this
occasion to promote a matter close to my heart: the topic of the deleterious
effects of usury finance and corresponding health-giving reality of a positive
non-usurious mode of transacting.

I would be interested if someone more knowledgeable about Brehon law could say
something about the standing of usury in the law (Vincent?). However, that may
be I think that there could be much fruitful discussion of this topic, and
hopefully there might be a few who would be interested in this book on the
topic.

The text below is the standard back page blurb. I hope the book might be of
interest, particularly the material on the significance of non-inflationary
money, gold and silver coins, and the importance of free open market places, and
imagine there might be even more interest now the banking system if collapsing
around our ears.

Banking: the root cause of the injustices of our time

The original 1987 Norwich conference Usury: root cause of the injustices of our
time whose proceedings form the core of this work, had an extraordinary effect.
After the endless analyses and altercations of left and right to which we were
accustomed, here was an argument that went to the core of the matter in one
bound, and yet did so with a degree of scholarship and indeed erudition that was
not cavalier. The result was electric. It was also well before its time.

This book contains the texts of the original lectures as well as some
contemporary material that updates it. The 80's material was remarkably
prescient, as the reader will discover. However, history has furnished us
another opportunity – the catastrophic bank collapses of 2008 and the impending
total systems shutdown of 2009 – to revisit this vital material and place it
before the reader.

Whatever the result of the signal events of 2008-9– a slide into depression,
cataclysmic upheaval or a rebound into dynamic activity – the argument in this
work still stands: Usury is demonstrably the motor of the injustices of our age.
That is the bad news, whose necessary corollary, a delineation of the way out of
our global predicament, this book explores.
A picture of the cover is at:
http://www.bogvaerker.dk/images/banking.jpg

It is published by Diwan Press:
http://www.diwanpress.com