> "I strongly opposed deregulation of finance, in part because I understood that 'freeing' the financial sector would make us all less free in the end," Stiglitz writes in his book.

LOL

> He blames financial deregulation for contributing to the 2008 financial crisis.

Some economists says that it happened due to regulation and monetary policy [1]

[1](https://mises.org/quarterly-journal-austrian-economics/subpr...)