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William Black on Financial Fraud
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Length:
82 minutes
Released:
Feb 6, 2012
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Podcast episode
Description
William Black of University of Missouri-Kansas City and author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about financial fraud, starting with the Savings and Loan debacle up through the current financial crisis. Black explains how bank executives can use fraudulent loans to inflate the size of their bank in order to justify large compensation packages. He argues that "liar loans" were a major part of the crisis and that policy changes made it easy to generate such loans without criminal repercussions.
Released:
Feb 6, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
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