Pound was not against money as such, but he was concerned that it should always stand for some concrete thing, whether goods or services, that it should not take off into a world of abstraction and be "created out of nothing." The Jew, he thought, was the artist of money, performing bewildering arabesques with it which bore no relation to the processes of agriculture or production and which actually hindered those processes.

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