&gt;However, they were relatively few in number and there is no evidence they were silenced as the original post I was replying to implied.<p>Yeah I think there is a little miscommunication, you are limiting the silence to economists and not extending it to people in finance which is what I did in OP.  It was more the finance people with evidence were silenced, in the whistle-blower sense of the word, and economists who did acknowledge what was occurring were ignored.<p>As OP, I never qualified my statement as &quot;large scale&quot;, I simply stated the article ignored the reality that economists and financial insiders did make attempts blow the whistle.  Now since neither of us knows the exact numbers, I&#x27;m not going to bicker over qualifications I never invoked such as &quot;large scale&quot;, what ever &quot;large scale&quot; means to you subjectively.<p>Scale aside, silencing happened all the same, just look at the whistle blower lawsuits against the big banks: BOA; JP Morgan Chase; Countrywide; etc...<p>All of them had employees&#x2F;investigators who discovered fraud and they were subsequently fired for blowing the whistle.  Perhaps these examples fall more under the financial insiders I noted rather than economists, though I assume more economists would have got it right had the whistle blowers not been silenced.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.publicintegrity.org&#x2F;2011&#x2F;09&#x2F;22&#x2F;6687&#x2F;countrywide-protected-fraudsters-silencing-whistleblowers-say-former-employees" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.publicintegrity.org&#x2F;2011&#x2F;09&#x2F;22&#x2F;6687&#x2F;countrywide-p...</a><p>&gt;the investigators were able to uncover what they believed was evidence that branch employees had used scissors, tape and Wite-Out to create fake bank statements, inflated property appraisals and other phony paperwork. Inside the heaps of paper, for example, they found mock-ups that indicated to investigators that workers had, as a matter of routine, literally cut and pasted the address for one home onto an appraisal for a completely different piece of property.<p>&gt;<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rollingstone.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-9-billion-witness-20141106" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rollingstone.com&#x2F;politics&#x2F;news&#x2F;the-9-billion-witn...</a><p>&gt;A few months into her tenure, Fleischmann would later testify in a DOJ deposition, the bank hired a new manager for diligence, the group in charge of reviewing and clearing loans. Fleischmann quickly ran into a problem with this manager, technically one of her superiors. She says he told her and other employees to stop sending him e-mails. The department, it seemed, was wary of putting anything in writing when it came to its mortgage deals.