It was mostly illegal in Christian medieval Europe to charge interest on aloanofmoney, for much the same reasons Islamic law forbids it: That, as money is intrinsically unproductive, it is ethically wrong to make money from money.
With a pair of terse notices yesterday, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency basically admitted that its elaborate process for turning up evidence of fraud in hundreds of thousands ofloan files was a waste ofmoney.