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" ... Mark: “Yes. In fact, in 1699 a group of Boston-area ministers meet to debate lots of different policies, including usury, and they actually deconstruct the Aristotelian/Thomist argument against usury, that usury is perforce in medieval Catholic teaching, which they get from Aristotle. Usury is perforce deceitful because money is only a measure; it cannot increase; it’s like a ruler, and you use it for exchange but it itself cannot be a commodity. It cannot enhance in value, because once money enhances in value, it ruins its role as a stable measure of merely exchange, if you will, value. That’s the Aristotelian argument.” ... "