By Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound was probably the greatest poet that the United States of America ever produced.
However, this booklet is concerned with his lifetime opposition to the banking system and orthodox economics. He was a qualified supporter of Major C.H. Douglas, the founder of the Social Credit movement. He admired Gessel, Orage and Thomas Jefferson who were precursors of these ideas. He was a friend of Sir Oswald Mosley and his wife Lady Diana Mosley.
He lived in Italy before the war and supported the Fascist Government. He broadcast on their radio and was imprisoned after the war for treason.
In this work he writes in an easy language and describes what in fact money is, and how it should be used. He regarded interest charged for money as theft and explains the alternative system of Social Credit.
He says: "The aim of a sane and decent economic system is to fix things so that decent people can eat, have clothes and houses up to the limit of available goods".