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Liar’s Loans, Plus Loan Brokers, Equals Fraud Heaven

William K. Black February 4, 2016     Bloomington, MN This is the fourth part of my series on the lies about “liar’s” loans that suffuse the Wall Street Journal article reporting that “big money managers” want to bring back “liar’s loans.”  … Continue reading

SEALs, CEOs, Milton Friedman, and Fraudulent Incentives

By William K. Black Quito: May 31, 2015 I saw an intriguing squib in the Wall Street Journal about an article in the Harvard Business Review entitled “How the Navy SEALS Train for Leadership Excellence.”  The article offers an, unintentionally, useful … Continue reading

The Study that Foreshadowed the Three Fraud Epidemics that Drove the Crisis

By William K. Black Bloomington, MN: February 15, 2015 I will be writing a series of articles concerning the three mortgage fraud epidemics that hyper-inflated the bubble and drove the financial crisis prompted by four recent economic studies of mortgage fraud. … Continue reading

How the Rocket Scientists Aided the Senior Fraudulent Bank Officers

By William K. Black In my first column in this two-part series I explained how the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) non-prosecutorial effort against the banksters’ frauds that caused the financial crisis had ended with a pathetic whimper uttered by Deputy … Continue reading

Floyd Norris’ Apologia for Citi’s Frauds

By William K. Black I have just written a column about the New York Times’ financial journalist, Floyd Norris’ August 20, 2014 column decrying attacks on those who detect and seek to sanction elite frauds.  Norris’ focus was on the … Continue reading

Gowex Shows Why Lending is the Best Venue for Accounting Control Fraud

By William K. Black (Cross posted on Benzinga.com) A classic accounting control fraud, Gowex, has collapsed in Spain.  Gowex was a wi-fi firm.  It was able to run its scam for at least four years.  It was a crude scam that … Continue reading

Key House Republicans Almost Get Accounting Control Fraud

By William K. Black To prepare myself for a guest lecture to a class at the University of Kansas I did some research about the House Financial Services Committee, now chaired by Jeb Hensarling (R. TX).  I was pleased to … Continue reading

How to Prosecute the Elite Bank CEO that Led the Frauds that Drove the Crisis

By William K. Black Step one: Understand the three “control fraud” epidemics that drove the crisis. Control fraud occurs when the person that controls a seemingly legitimate entity uses it as a “weapon to defraud.”  In finance, accounting is the … Continue reading

The Taylor Rule: Ignore Fraud Epidemics and Worship Markets

By William K. Black I recently posted a detailed article in response to Raj Chetty’s lament that scientists make fun of economics’ pretense to science. The thrust of my article was that the problem was not that economics was inherently … Continue reading

The Fraud Shotgun: The Overlapping Fields of Fraudulent Fire that Drove the Crisis

By William K. Black I have written a series of articles recently that focus on appraisal fraud. I did so because appraisal fraud allows such “clean” tests of what (and who) drove the financial crisis and how many different private … Continue reading