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John Zube, 7 Oxley St., Berrima, NSW 2577, Australia     5 Aug. 89

Thomas H. Greco, Jr., 314 Garson Ave., Rochester, NY 14 609

Der Thomas,
            I received yesterday with thanks the following papers from you :
1.) Gold Convertibility, Legal Tender and Monopolized Currency, by Thomas H. Greco, Jr., May 17, 89, 5 pp,
2.) The Nature of Banking, a chapter of Ralp Borsodi's book INFLATION IS STEALING! LET'S STOP THOSE WHO CAUSE IT, 1977, 2pp, in The Green Revolution, vol. 34, No. 10, 1977, published by The School of Living. ( Actually dealing only with svings and investment banks and revealing ignorance and prejudice of inflation and even a bias in favour of compulsory state licensing.)
3.) A Report on the Cato Institute Conference on Money, by T.H. Greco, Jr., March 20, 1989, 4pp. ( Now, supposedly, in a final version, which I could microfiche.)
4.) T.H. Greco to Carl Wilson, letter, May 25, 89, 5pp. ( I had not heard of him or his LARC proposal before and would gladly microfilm it, if I could get a good enough copy for this. )
5.) Burnham P. Beckwith, Eight Forecasts for U.S. Banking, from THE FUTURIST, March-April 89, 7pp, with some of the usual statist predictions and excuses for monetary despotism as an advanced payment method and as if it were harmful only to criminals - instead of constituting or continuing one of the greatest crimes of all.                                       

These will all appear in one of my next monetary microfiche.

I have, as you requirested in a hand-written note, made some remarks to your paper under 1.) I arranged them under some catchwords and alphabetically because I am involved in describing free banking ideas and arguments in alphabetical form. A German compilation has almost reached 100 pages but my previous and recent English one, now already more than a year old, came only to 9 pages. Previous other English compilations and new entries will bring this compilation to a few hundred pages, as a first draft towards a handbook. I do not know as yet when I get around to finish this manuscript. Not all is on computer file, for easy sorting in. Much will have to be transcribed via keyboarding. I have planned such a book for decades - and have, unfortunately, still too many other irons in the fire. For instance, I just finished volumes XIII and XIV of ON PANARCHY and am working on volumen XV.

I still hope to make it to the US in October or November this year. After x delays and waiting periods, I have the money and the passport now but a number of jobs like the above still tie me down. No detailed travel agenda as yet. But I do hope to be able to see you. Will give you a ring, days to weeks ahead, from Cal. and will try to make some other contacts in NY city and state anyhow.

In our monetary views we do have much in common and can bridge the differences by our common appreciation of monetary freedom, expressed in free monetary experiments.

I presume that you have kept all your monetary letters and papers on computer files and that you could, relatively easily alphabetize such entries too, by adding catchwords and cutting them into separate paragraphs and sorting accordingly.
Are they in MSDOS, in an IBM compatible system?

         PIOT, John Zube.

Enclosure PP 868.

P.S.: With my previous mailing of fiche, with letter of 6/6/89, I hoped to get a copy of Borsodi's last book in exchange. Judging by the extract that you sent, I will, probably, not like it very much but, nevertheless, it would belong into my monetary freedom series for some of his ideas and proposals.