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As we watch the troubles in Greece, it is interesting to note the stance of the Ancient Greek philosophers on the topic of riba / usury, for example, Aristotle on Usury in 350 B.C. wrote:

The most hated sort of money-making,... and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself and not from the natural use of it-for money was intended merely for exchange, not for increase at interest. And this term interest, which implies the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money, because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of money-making, this is the most unnatural.