The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One : : How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry /

The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One : : How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry / / William K. Black.

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In this expert insider’s account of the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s, William Black lays bare the strategies that corrupt CEOs and CFOs—in collusion with those who have regulatory oversight of their industries—use to defraud companies for their personal gain. Recounting the investigations h...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Black, William K.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2013
Year of Publication:2021
Edition:Updated Edition
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1 Theft by Deception: Control Fraud in the S&L Industry
  • Chapter 2 “Competition in Laxity”
  • Chapter 3 The Most Unlikely of Heroes
  • Chapter 4 Keating’s Unholy War against the Bank Board
  • Chapter 5 The Texas Control Frauds Enlist Jim Wright
  • Chapter 6 “The Faustian Bargain”
  • Chapter 7 The Miracles, the Massacre, and the Speaker’s Fall
  • Chapter 8 M. Danny Wall: “Child of the Senate”
  • Chapter 9 Final Surrender: Wall Takes Up Neville Chamberlain’s Umbrella
  • Chapter 10 It’s the Things You Do Know, But Aren’t So, That Cause Disasters
  • Afterword
  • Appendix A. Keating’s Plan of Attack on Gray and Reregulation
  • Appendix B. Hamstringing the Regulator
  • Appendix C. Get Black . . . Kill Him Dead
  • Notes
  • Names and Terms
  • References
  • Index

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