But that's not how most of the people mentioned in this book became wealthy. Most of them became wealthy by being well connected and crooked. And they are creating a society in which they can commit hugely damaging economic crimes with impunity, and in which only children of the wealthy have the opportunity to become successful.
When the U.S. government is serious about doing something that's complicated and difficult, it can do it. - Charles Ferguson
When the U.S. government is serious about doing something that's complicated and difficult, it can do it.
- Charles Ferguson
A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to… - Charles Ferguson
A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to…
Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial execu… - Charles Ferguson
Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial execu…
You shall hear a good account of me or of my death. - Charles Ferguson
You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.
This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail. - Charles Ferguson
This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.
I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I'd jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of a movie I should try to make. - Charles Ferguson
I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I'd jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of a movie I should try to make.
I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies. - Charles Ferguson
I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies.
I'm actually all in favor of freeing the entrepreneurial spirit - but it turns out, interestingly, that you actually need very strict regulations to … - Charles Ferguson
I'm actually all in favor of freeing the entrepreneurial spirit - but it turns out, interestingly, that you actually need very strict regulations to …
It 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 w… - Charles Ferguson
It 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 w…
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