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Wall Street and Goldman Sachs Party On

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Kevin Phillips, Executive Compensation, Goldman Sachs, William Black, Wall Street, Goldman Sachs Bonuses, Economic Crisis, Tim Geithner, Economy, Larry Summers, Time Magazine, Allan Sloan, Business News
Joseph A. Palermo

A criminal gang of rich white guys in New York did some extremely reckless things with the nation's collective wealth, and the middle class got clobbered.

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"Roosevelt Institute Celebrates A New Agenda for America": Eliot Spitzer, Elizabeth Warren And 13 Others Reflect On The 80-Year Anniversary Of The Stock Market Crash Of 1929

Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, William Black, Unemployment, New Deal 2.0, Rob Johnson, Bruce Judson, Financial Crisis, The Great Crash, Bill Black, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eliot Spitzer, Recession, 80-Year Anniversary of the Great Crash, Business News

"A New Agenda for America"- On the 80th Anniversary of Great Crash, What Have We Learned and What Lies Ahead? 80 years ago today, on October 29th...

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William K. Black: Bank Stress Tests "A Complete Sham"

finance.yahoo.com | Aaron Task | Posted 05.10.2009 | Business

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The bank stress tests currently underway are "a complete sham," says William Black, a former senior bank regulator and S&L prosecutor, and currently a...

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William K. Black on Geithner: "The Guy Has a Track Record of Failure Everywhere He's Gone"

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: James K. Galbraith, Tim Geithner, William K. Black, Larry Summers, The Young Turks, S&L Crisis, Bank Bailout, Barack Obama, Timothy Geithner, William Black, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

This is beginning to feel a little like before the Iraq War when some warned of impending disaster and the administration and mainstream media blew them off.

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William K. Black Talks To Bill Moyers (VIDEO)

PBS | Posted 05.07.2009 | Business

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Bill Moyers interviewed William K. Black, the former Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention, on Sunday. Black, author of "The Best Way to Rob ...

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How to Stop AIG's Bonuses

Bill Black, Tom Ferguson, Rob Johnson, Walker Todd | Posted 04.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, TARP Money, Aig Bonuses, Office of Thrift Supervision, AIG Bailout, CEO Bonuses, Aig, Sec, Bonuses, Wall Street Bonuses, Obama Tarp Money, Edward Liddy, William Black, Business News
Bill Black, Tom Ferguson, Rob Johnson, Walker Todd

Today the task is to stop a grotesque abuse before it is too late. The path we outline here would do it, without throwing markets into turmoil.

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The Two Documents Everyone Should Read to Better Understand the Crisis

William K. Black | Posted 03.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Subprime Mortgages, Tim Geithner, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Control Fraud, Fbi, Subprime Loan Crisis, Timothy Geithner, Subprime Loans, William Black, William K. Black, Business News
William K. Black

The FBI identified the epidemic of mortgage control fraud at such an early point that the financial crisis could have been averted had the Bush administration acted with even minimal competence.

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Obama's Brilliant Shot Across the Bow

Peter J. Ognibene | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lincoln Savings and Loan, Senate Ethics Committee, John McCain, William Black, Election ’08, Charles Keating, National Republican Trust PAC, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, Keating Five, Politics News
Peter J. Ognibene

Obama made clear that he would not remain passive in the face of tactics such as the Willie Horton ad that undermined the 1988 campaign of Dukakis or the Swift Boat attacks against Kerry.

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Nico Pitney

Flashback: McCain's Presidential Ambitions Raised In Keating Hearing

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: William Black, Video, Keating 5 Video, Keating Five, Keating Economics, John McCain, Politics News

Prominently featured in the Obama campaign's new Keating Five documentary is a former chief federal regulator named William Black, who had a front-row...

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