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William Kurt Black (born September 6, 1951) is an American lawyer, academic, author, and a former bank regulator. Black's expertise is in white-collar crime, public finance, regulation, and other topics in law and economics. He developed the concept of "control fraud", in which a business or national executive uses the entity he or she controls as a "weapon" to commit fraud. Background Black earned a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. Black is currently an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in the Department of Economics and the School of Law. He was the executive director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention from 2005 to 2007 and previously taught at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, and at Santa Clara University. Black was litigation director for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB) from 1984 to 1986, deputy director of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC) in 1987, and Senior VP and the General Counsel of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco from 1987 to 1989, which regulated some of the largest thrift banks in the U.S. Savings and loan scandal Black was a central figure in exposing Congressional corruption during the Savings and Loan Crisis. He took the notes during the Keating Five meeting that were later published in the press, and brought the event to national attention and a congressional investigation. According to Bill Moyers, The former Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention now teaches Economics and Law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. During the savings and loan crisis, it was Black who accused then-house speaker Jim Wright and five US Senators, including John Glenn and John McCain, of doing favors for the S&L's in exchange for contributions and other perks. The senators got off with a slap on the wrist, but so enraged was one of those bankers, Charles Keating — after whom the senate's so-called "Keating Five" were named — he sent a memo that read, in part, 'get Black — kill him dead.' Metaphorically, of course. Of course. Financial crisis of 2007–2008 Bill Moyers Journal appearances On April 3, 2009 Black appeared on Bill Moyers Journal on PBS and provided critical commentary on the U.S. banking crisis. Black asserted that the banking crisis in the US that started in late 2008 is essentially a big Ponzi scheme; that the "liar loans" and other financial tricks were essentially illegal frauds; and that the triple-A ratings given to these loans was part of a criminal cover-up. He said that the "Prompt Corrective Action Law" passed after the Savings and loan crisis mandated that ailing banks should be put into receivership. Black also stated that trying to hide how bad the situation is will simply prolong the problem, as happened in Japan and resulted in Japan's lost decade. Black stated that Timothy Geithner was engaged in a cover-up, and that the administration did not want people to understand what went wrong or how bad the banking situation was. On April 23, 2010, Black was again interviewed by Moyers to update the public's understanding of the financial crisis. Testimony before Congress on the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers On April 20, 2010, Black testified before the House Financial Services Committee in a hearing titled "Public Policy Issues Raised by the Report of the Lehman Bankruptcy Examiner." He testified about the role that Alt-A mortgages, what he called "liars' loans," on residential real estate played in the downfall of Lehman Brothers. His testimony was that "Lehman's failure is a story in large part of fraud. And it is fraud that begins at the absolute latest in 2001, and that is with their subprime and liars' loan operations.": 73 As explained in his prepared statement, his reference was to Aurora Loan Services, Inc., which was a subsidiary of Lehman: "Lehman's principal source of (fictional) income and real losses was making (and selling) what the trade accurately called 'liar's loans' through its subsidiary, Aurora. (The bland euphemism for liar's loans was 'Alt-A.') Liar's loans are 'criminogenic' (they create epidemics of mortgage fraud) because they create strong incentives to provide false information on loan applications.": 122–148 On the same page in his prepared testimony Black referenced an article from the Denver Post dated September 16, 2008, the day after Lehman filed for bankruptcy. The article reported on the uncertain fate of Aurora Loan Services, which was based nearby, and quoted Lehman's chief financial officer as saying the previous week that, "The majority of our write-downs were in Alt-A driven by an increase in.. . delinquencies and loss expectations." The article also said that Lehman was "among the first of its peers to originate home loans and securitize them for sale across the globe, and it fueled the growth of the Alt-A loan.": 126 Testimony before Irish Banking Inquiry Black was invited to testify before the Irish parliament's banking inquiry in February 2015. In his testimony, he described the broad September 2008 Irish bank guarantee, as "the most destructive own goal in history". Works "The U.S. Banking Industry in Transition in Real World Banking", eds. Dan Fireside & Amy Gluckman (Dollars & Sense 2008) "When Fragile Become Friable: Endemic Control Fraud as a Cause of Economic Stagnation and Collapse", White Collar Crimes: a Debate, K. Naga Srivalli, ed., Hyderabad, India, The Icfai University Press (2007: 162–178) "Corruption Kills", International Handbook of White-Collar Crime, Henry Pontell & G. Geis eds. (Springer 2007) "Control fraud v. the protocols", Crime, Law & Social Change, 45(3) (April 2006: 241–258) Black, William K. (2013). The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry (Updated ed.). University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-75418-8. Retrieved 11 May 2021. Black, William K. (December 2005). "'Control frauds' as financial super-predators: How 'pathogens' make financial markets inefficient" (PDF). Journal of Socio-Economics. 34 (6): 734–755. doi:10.1016/j.socec.2005.07.026. Retrieved 11 May 2021. "Control Fraud as an Explanation for White-Collar Crime Waves: The Case of the Savings & Loan Debacle", Crime, Law and Social Change 43(1) (February 2005: 1-29) "The Dango Tango: Why Corruption Blocks Real Reform in Japan", Business Ethics Quarterly 14(4) (October 2004: 602–623) "The Imperium Strikes Back: The Need to Teach Socioeconomics to Law Students", San Diego Law Review, No. 1 (Winter 2004: 231–256) "Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts: Enron Uses Its High Tech Information System to Defraud", CISIC 2003 Conference Symposium (McGraw-Hill 2003) "Re-examining the Law & Economics Theory of Corporate Governance", Challenge 46(2) (March/April 2003: 22–40) "A Tale of Two Crises", Kravis Leadership Institute Leader.... Discover the K Black popular books. Find the top 100 most popular K Black books.
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Bet on Black
Eboni K. WilliamsEssence Magazine 2023 Must ReadBet on Black is a call to action for Black people all over the world to adopt a fresh, highly informed mindset that will change their lives. Blacknes...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan DoyleA musthave collection of stories featuring the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, one of the most famous and beloved detectives in fiction.In the riveting tales collected in The ...
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Redemption
Nicholas LemannA century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the...
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Divine Descendant
Jenna BlackFor Immortal Huntress and cunning private investigator Nikki Glass, vengeance trumps all in the final novel in acclaimed author Jenna Black's addictive urban fantasy series!What ha...
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Animal 3
K'wanAfter making a promise to leave the street life behind, a shocking revelation forces Animal back into the game to face his greatest opponent yet.After years of war on the streets t...
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The Sisters Brothers
Patrick DeWittSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL, JOHN C. REILLY AND JOAQUIN PHOENIXA BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST AND A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Publishers Weekly Amazon H...
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The Stone Sky
N. K. JemisinHumanity will finally be saved or destroyed in the shattering conclusion to the postapocalyptic and highly acclaimed NYT bestselling trilogy that won the Hugo Award three years in ...
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Animal 2
K'wanIn this second, bloody installment in the Animal saga, secrets are revealed, sides are chosen, and bodies are droppedit's on!The man ordered to take Animal from the world turns out...
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Berenstain Bears, Faith Gets Us Through
Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain & Mike BerenstainYoung readers will begin sounding out words and reading simple sentences in this Level One I Can Read addition to the Living Lights™ series of Berenstain Bears books. Children will...
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Pretty Powerful
Eboni K. WilliamsFormer FOX News host and attorney Eboni K. Williams believes that women shouldn’t hide their beauty. Instead, they should embrace it as a positive and powerful asset. Williams desc...
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Scenes from My Life
Michael K. Williams & Jon SternfeldNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD A “gripping, revelatory” (NPR) memoir of hardwon success, struggles with addiction, and a lifelong mission to give ...
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City of Ash and Red
Hye-young Pyun & Sora Kim-RussellNAMED AN NPR GREAT READ OF 2018From the Shirley Jackson Award–winning author of The Hole, a Kafkaesque tale of crime and punishment hailed by Korea’s Wall Street Journal as “a...
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The House Girl
Tara Conklin“Assured and arresting...You cannot put it down.”” (Chicago Tribune)The House Girl, the historical fiction debut by Tara Conklin, is an unforgettable story of love, history, and a ...
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Dream Big
Deloris JordanOlympic dreams come true in this inspiring picture book from Michael Jordan’s mother, author of the New York Times bestselling Salt in His Shoes.Long before he became a professiona...
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K2
Ed Viesturs & David RobertsA thrilling chronicle of the tragedyridden history of climbing the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of The Mountain and No Shortcuts to...
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Out There Screaming
Jordan Peele, John Joseph Adams, N. K. Jemisin, Rebecca Roanhorse, Tananarive Due & Nnedi OkoraforNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of allnew stories...
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The Killing Moon
N. K. JemisinAssassin priests, mad kings, and the goddess of death collide in the first book of the Dreamblood Duology by NYT bestselling and three time HugoAward winning author N. K. Jemisin.T...
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The Crime at Black Dudley
Margery AllinghamClassic Crime from the Golden Age, the first in the Albert Campion Series. Margery Allingham is J.K. Rowling's favourite Golden Age author. George Abbershaw is set for a soci...
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The Iliad
Homer & Caroline AlexanderWith her virtuoso translation, classicist and bestselling author Caroline Alexander brings to life Homer’s timeless epic of the Trojan WarComposed around 730 B.C., Homer’s Iliad re...
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Mountain Rescue
Sandra OwensA woman on the run. A wounded SEAL who wants to become invisible. Two strangers, one mountain cabin.The sole witness to a murder, stuntwoman Rachel Denning thought she’d found the ...
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The Sleepwalking Snowman
Andres MiedosoIt’s Desmond and Andres versus a sneaky snowman in the seventh book of the Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol series!There’s snow in the air and a sneaky snowman on the loose! When one of t...
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Native Son
Richard Wright“If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son.” –...
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The Fifth Season
N. K. JemisinAt the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and...
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Rough Crossings
Simon Schama“The most dramatic account so far of the extraordinary expeience of slaves in and after the American Revolution. . . . Schama’s gift for plunging us into the very center of the act...
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That Others May Live
Sara DriscollA treat for dog lovers, this latest novel in the only mystery series that revolves around a K9 searchandrescue unit is gripping, timely, and “wonderfully readable” (Publishers Week...
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To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever
Will BlytheAn obsessively personal history of the blood feud between North Carolina’s and Duke’s basketball teams and what that rivalry says about class and culture in the SouthThe basketball...
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The Book of Chuang Tzu
Chuang Tzu & Martin PalmerThe Book of Chuang Tzu draws together the stories, tales, jokes and anecdotes that have gathered around the figure of Chuang Tzu. One of the great founders of Taoism, Chaung Tzu li...
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The Shadowed Sun
N. K. JemisinIn the final book of NYT bestselling and three time HugoAward winning author N. K. Jemisin's Dreamblood Duology, a priestess and an exiled prince must join together to free the cit...
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The New Puritans
Andrew Doyle'A sober but devastating skewering of cancel culture and the moral certainties it shares with religious fundamentalism' Sunday Times Engaging, incisive and acute, The New Puritans ...
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Campfire Stories
Andres MiedosoDesmond Cole goes camping and tells some scary campfire stories in the eighth book of the Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol series!Camping with Desmond Cole is a lot of fun, until he start...
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Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell & Lao TzuThe bestselling, widely acclaimed translation from Stephen Mitchell"Mitchell's rendition of the Tao Te Ching comes as close to being definitive for our time as any I can imagine. I...
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The Awakened Kingdom
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Promise That You Will Sing About Me
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The Creative Curve
Allen GannettBig data entrepreneur Allen Gannett overturns the mythology around creative genius, and reveals the science and secrets behind achieving breakout commercial success in any field. &...
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An Unkindness of Ghosts
Rivers SolomonA breathtaking science fiction debut from a worthy successor to Octavia Butler.One of Esquire magazine’s 50 Best SciFi Books of All Time“Solomon debuts with a raw di...
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Cosby
Mark WhitakerThe first major biography of an American icon, comedian Bill Cosby. Based on extensive research and indepth interviews with Cosby and more than sixty of his closest friends and ass...
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The Angel Esmeralda
Don DeLilloFrom one of the greatest writers of our time, his first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011, chroniclingand foretellingthree decades of American life Set in ...
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Rap Capital
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Allegedly
Tiffany D. Jackson4 starred reviews!Orange Is the New Black meets Walter Dean Myer’s Monster in this gritty, twisty, and haunting debut by Tiffany D. Jackson about a girl convicted of murder seeking...
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The Silence
Don DeLilloFrom the National Book Award–winning author of Underworld, a “daring…provocative…exquisite” (The Washington Post) novel about five people gathered together in a Manhattan apartment...
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Twelve Years a Slave
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Walking to Samarkand
Bernard Ollivier & Dan GolembeskiAcclaimed journalist Bernard Ollivier continues his epic journey across Persia and Central Asia as he walks the length of the Great Silk Road. Walking to Samarkand ...
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The Obelisk Gate
N. K. JemisinEssun's missing daughter grows more powerful every day, and her choices may destroy the world in this "magnificent" Hugo Award winner and NYT Notable Book. (NPR)The season of endin...
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The Odyssey of Homer
Richmond LattimoreHomer’s great epic The Odysseyone of Western literature’s most enduring and important workstranslated by Richmond LattimoreA classic for the ages, The Odyssey recounts Odysseus’ jo...
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In the Black Fantastic
Ekow EshunA richly illustrated exploration of Black culture at its most wildly imaginative, artistically ambitious, and politically urgent.A richly illustrated exploration of Black culture a...
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The Berenstain Bears Help the Homeless
Jan Berenstain & Mike BerenstainYoung readers will begin sounding out words and reading simple sentences in this Level One I Can Read addition to the Living Lights™ series of Berenstain Bears books. Children will...