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… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
The real challenge is figuring out how the United States can regain control of its future from its new oligarchy and restore its position as a prosperous, fair, well-educated nation. For if we don't, the current pattern of great concentration… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
I thought I should try something relatively inexpensive, relatively contained, relatively small. I started working on a feature, a film I'd still like to… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population under the… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about. — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
I used to be a businessman and I enjoyed what I did and I thought that it was socially useful. I don't have anything… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
The real challenge is figuring out how the United States can regain control of its future from its new oligarchy and restore its position… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
When the U.S. government is serious about doing something that's complicated and difficult, it can do it. — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
A very high fraction of America's economic problems come not from our difficulties with education or globalization or competition with the Chinese or whatever.… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
