I am not advocating a return to the early Middle Ages, when Church usury laws forbade interest on loans. Back then, financial-market participants had to devise fantastic schemes and contortions to disguise interest payments.
我并非鼓吹要回到中世纪早期，当时教堂制定的一系列贷款法律都禁止收取贷款利息。在那时候，金融市场参与者们必须策划出精妙的计划和托辞来隐瞒利息的支付。