The Monkey's Paw (Part II)
The Blessing and the Curse of Interest
Review
The paradoxical nature of interest was the subject of last week’s essay, The Monkey's Paw (Part I). It’s simultaneously a critical civilizational building block and a dangerous source of societal instability. That’s why the taking of interest is ominously warned against virtually across the board in every religious tradition on the planet, even as…