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by William K. Black

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In this expert insider's account of the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s, William Black lays bare the strategies that corrupt CEOs and CFOs-in collusion with those who have regulatory oversight of their industries-use to defraud companies for their personal gain. Recounting the investigations he conducted as Director of Litigation for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Black fully reveals how Charles Keating and hundreds of other S&L owners took advantage of a weak regulatory environment to perpetrate accounting fraud on a massive scale. In the new afterword, he also authoritatively links the S&L crash to the business failures of 2008 and beyond, showing how CEOs then and now are using the same tactics to defeat regulatory restraints and commit the same types of destructive fraud.

Black uses the latest advances in criminology and economics to develop a theory of why "control fraud"-looting a company for personal profit-tends to occur in waves that make financial markets deeply inefficient. He also explains how to prevent such waves. Throughout the book, Black drives home the larger point that control fraud is a major, ongoing threat in business that requires active, independent regulators to contain it. His book is a wake-up call for everyone who believes that market forces alone will keep companies and their owners honest.

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  • Title The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry
  • Author William K. Black
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Updat
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Texas Press
  • Publication date 2013-09-15
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780292754188 / 0292754183
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 1.1 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.79 cm)
  • Category Business / Economics / Finance
  • Library of Congress subjects Savings and loan associations - Corrupt, Savings and loan association failures -
  • Dewey Decimal Code 332.320

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William K. Black is Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, where he teaches White-Collar Crime, Public Finance, Antitrust, Law & Economics. He covers markets and regulation with his speech "Unsound Theories and Policies Produce Epidemics of Fraud and Regulatory and Market Failures."

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