Bill Black — "Reagan Made S&L Crisis Vastly Worse" on The Real News Network (February 7, 2011)

Bill Black — "Reagan Made S&L Crisis Vastly Worse" on The Real News Network (February 7, 2011)

Former S&L regulator Bill Black explains the Reagan administration's role in deepening the Savings & Loan crisis of the 1980s.

William K. Black, associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, teaches White-Collar Crime, Public Finance, Antitrust, Law & Economics. A former financial regulator, he held several senior regulatory positions during the S&L debacle. Black is the author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One (2005) which focuses on the role of “control fraud” in financial crises. Black developed the concept of "control fraud" — frauds in which the CEO or head of state uses the entity as a "weapon." Control frauds cause greater financial losses than all other forms of property crime combined.

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Bill Black's website is: University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

Source: The Real News Network
Aired: 02/07/11 12:00 AM

Bill Moyers — Bill Black, Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman "Corruption in America's Banks?"

The financial industry brought the economy to its knees, but how did they get away with it? With the nation wondering how to hold the bankers accountable, Bill Moyers sits down with Bill Black, the former senior regulator who cracked down on banks during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. Black offers his analysis of what went wrong and his critique of the bailout. And, Bill Moyers talks with alternative media heavyweights Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman about what can and can't be addressed in big corporate media.


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Bill Moyers' website is http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/

Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Aired: 4/03/09 12:00 AM