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The Economist
July 29, 2026

There’s never been a better time to commit financial fraud


In the six months to the end of March federal prosecutors brought 2,008 white-collar crime cases, putting them on course for a little over 4,000 by the end of the government’s fiscal year in September, according to figures from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a data repository. That would be a drop of a sixth from five years ago and half from 20 years ago (see chart).


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