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William K Black , J.D., Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Bill Black has testified before the Senate Agricultural Committee on the regulation of financial derivatives and House Governance Committee on the regulation of executive compensation. He was interviewed by Bill Moyers on PBS, which went viral. He gave an invited lecture at UCLA’s Hammer Institute which, when the video was posted on the web, drew so many “hits†that it crashed the UCLA server. He appeared extensively in Michael Moore’s most recent documentary: “Capitalism: A Love Story.†He was featured in the Obama campaign release discussing Senator McCain’s role in the “Keating Five.†(Bill took the notes of that meeting that led to the Senate Ethics investigation of the Keating Five. His testimony was highly critical of all five Senators’ actions.) He is a frequent guest on local, national, and international television and radio and is quoted as an expert by the national and international print media nearly every week. He was the subject of featured interviews in Newsweek, Barron’s, and Village Voice. He is the author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One, and c–founder of Bank Whistleblowers United.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 4, 2014 EU Austerity as Frat House Hazing
Yes, the EU is now officially a fraternity, and austerity is its hazing ritual. Yes, they know that austerity is stupid, juvenile, and dangerous, but, hey, they had to suffer it so everybody else should as well.
SHARE Thursday, November 21, 2013 We have Passed the Economic Tipping Point in Achieving Marriage Equality
On Marriage equality, employing my economics "hat" I wish to offer this encouragement -- we have passed the tipping point in economics that ensures eventual success in securing marriage equality throughout the United States.
SHARE Thursday, January 8, 2015 EU Deflation Arrives and the Troika Continues to Fiddle While the EU Burns
Both papers are aflutter today with news that the Eurozone fell into deflation. We have been trying for months to explain that there is nothing magic about the harm caused by deflation (as opposed to very low levels of inflation).
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 1, 2014 Implicitly Assuming that the CEO is Not a Crook Misses the Problem
Gretchen Morgenson has brought a revealing study to the attention of the public in her article entitled "The CEO is My Friend, So Back Off." Here's the bad news -- the situation is vastly worse than the authors of the study conclude and the policy advice that experts offered Morgenson in response to the findings would fail where they were most needed.
Company CEOs typically provide a thin veneer of faux ethical trappings...
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 29, 2013 The Oil Oligarchs Want Me to Know How Much They Hate President Correa
Gustavo Coronel, a Venezuelan oil oligarch associated with Cato has written to let me know how much he despises Ecuador's President Rafael Correa.
Coronel has declared that one of my columns "made a failed attempt to whitewash the President of Ecuador, Correa, who is violating environmentally fragile areas of the Amazonia to drill for oil."
Strange comment from a man who has grown wealthy by drilling for oil in Amazonia.
SHARE Wednesday, May 28, 2014 Madness Posing as Hyper-Rationality: OMB's Assault on Effective Regulation
Rather than leading the emergency, top priority effort to adopt the regulations to end the criminogenic environment in finance, OMB remains a leader of the effort to prevent effective regulation.
In a rational world the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), under Presidents Bush and Obama, would have responded to the financial crisis by demanding an emergency effort as a top national priority.
SHARE Friday, March 25, 2016 Democrats Need to Give Up Being Deficit Hawks Even When it Feels Good Politically
The leaders of both parties share the hypocrisy of bashing the rival party for supporting budgetary stimulus in circumstances in which stimulus is vital. Particular forms of budgetary stimulus can be simultaneously desirable (relative to austerity) and inferior relative to alternative forms of budgetary stimulus.