Oh, they do it in the USA too. The bankers gladly gave them all the data. Not the bankers data, but companies, investors, and peoples data. Bankers like to think they are the smartest people in the room. They’re not. NSA captures the data that bankers are trying to hide but NSA doesn’t do anything about. There is collusion between finance, industry, and the military.
Seventeenth century Dutch merchant Jan Pieterszoon Coen, "We cannot make war without trade, nor trade without war."
“The Ascent of Money”, page 134, by Niall Ferguson
