“As with the government failures that made 9/11 possible, neglecting to prevent the crash of '08 was a sin of omission - less the result of deregulation per se than of disbelief in financial regulation as a legitimate mechanism.”

American political journalist

Jacob Weisberg is an American political journalist and editor. He served as editor in chief of The Slate Group, a division of Graham Holdings Company, and later left Slate to co-found Pushkin Industries in 2018 with journalist Malcolm Gladwell. He was also a Newsweek columnist and spent six years as editor of Slate magazine before stepping down in 2008. He is the son of Lois Weisberg, a Chicago social activist and municipal commissioner.