It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that tolerates or even encourages systematic fraud. The behaviour that caused the mortgage bubble and financial crisis of 2008 was a natural outcome and continuation of this pattern, rather than some kind of economic accident.
Charles FergusonWikiLeaks combines several of my prior interests in technology, policy questions, and journalism.
Charles FergusonWhen the U.S. government is serious about doing something that's complicated and difficult, it can do it.
Charles FergusonIt is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which to work on our current problems.
Charles Ferguson