Hér er merkilegt viðtal við hagfræðinginn John Galbraith, son hins goðsagnakennda Johns Kenneth Galbraith.

Galbraith yngri telur að ekki sé nóg að gert til að mæta fjármálakreppunni og vill að stórir bankar verði yfirteknir og brotnir upp í minni einingar. Hann varar við því að gömlu yfirstjórnirnar sitji áfram.

Hann segir ennfremur um það sem hann kallar culture of complicity:

„Manager Magazin: So in your view, the talk about systemic failures is aiming to hide the real crimes that are actually involved?

Galbraith: There was clearly a systemic failure. But that does not mean there was no criminal energy around. The language one uses to describe these things is very important. I tend to stay away from neutral terms like „systemic failure“ or „bubble,“ because these terms imply the innocence of the people involved — and I can’t see that.

Manager Magazin: What was it, then?

Galbraith: The reality of the financial crisis is that it was caused by a culture of complicity. That makes it so difficult for people to come to grips with it, especially for people who were involved, who were denying it themselves and who were partially aware of the extent of the damage. Probably many of them thought they would get away with it and now they realize that they have created an enormous slump.„