Inside Job, documentary filmmaker Charles Ferguson has published a new book, “Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America.” wherein he explores why no top financial executives have been jailed for their role in the nation’s worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. His film on the war in Iraq, No End in Sight, was nominated for an Academy Award.
In an interview with Amy Goodman at Democracy Now!, Ferguson said a “predatory elite” has “taken over significant portions of economic policy and of the political system, and also, unfortunately, major portions of the economics discipline.” Ferguson explains his viewpoint in this indepth Democracy Now! interview here: