Lol, this isn't "my" definition, David. You point me to a blog owned by a $6 billion corporate conglomerate whose biggest shareholders are $10+ trillion banks and hedge funds, and a website controlled by an elitist monarchist university that currently has the face of the world's leading rentier plastered on its website. Utterly moronic.

Meanwhile, I'll stick with the definition used in ancient Sumer, a good 4400+ years before either of us was born. Usury is lending and receiving back more value than was lent. If left unchecked by jubilees, ballooning usury leads to inequality, slavery, and war. Always.

I don't give a rip that the public has been duped into defending their own slavery. You seem smarter than that.

Sadly, unless you become a paid member, we have to wind this conversation down own. I love my baby too much to try to change the entrenched minds of status quo thinkers!

Real Michael Hudson's books if you want a reality check. Be sure to get in touch once you've seen through the matrix. ;)