William K. Black, J.D., Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Bill Black has testified before the Senate Agricultural Committee on the regulation of financial derivatives and House Governance Committee on the regulation of executive compensation. He was interviewed by Bill Moyers on PBS, which went viral. He gave an invited lecture at UCLA's Hammer Institute which, when the video was posted on the web, drew so many "hits" that it crashed the UCLA server. He appeared extensively in Michael Moore's most recent documentary: "Capitalism: A Love Story." He was featured in the Obama campaign release discussing Senator McCain's role in the "Keating Five." (Bill took the notes of that meeting that led to the Senate Ethics investigation of the Keating Five. His testimony was highly critical of all five Senators' actions.) He is a frequent guest on local, national, and international television and radio and is quoted as an expert by the national and international print media nearly every week. He was the subject of featured interviews in Newsweek, Barron's, and Village Voice.
Recent Blog Posts by William K. Black
- The Lethal Lemons on the Road to Bangladesh
- ‘Nobody in Europe’ Sees a ‘Contradiction’ Between Austerity and Growth
- Which Aspect of the FDIC’s Litigation Failures Is the Most Embarrassing and Damaging?
- The Latest Failed Effort to Blame the Community Reinvestment Act for Accounting Control Fraud
- ‘Pervasive’ Fraud by our ‘Most Reputable’ Banks
- Why Obama Refuses to Kill the Sequester
- Reinventing Government: The 1995 Speeches Announcing The Road to Ruin
- Yglesias Pours the Geithner, Holder, Breuer (GHB) Banksters Immunity Doctrine in Our Drinks
- William Black in Davos: Now We Know Better
- Blocking a Bad Idea That Enriches the Rich: Peterson, Austerity, and the Washington Consensus
- Obama Commits Unilateral Disarmament as a Debt-Ceiling Negotiator
- EU austerians rely on US stimulus to bail them out of recession
- Deprogramming Progressives Indoctrinated into Supporting Austerity
- Kill the “fiscal cliff” instead of the Economy
- Let’s Celebrate the Failure of the July 2011 Great Betrayal
- Ecuador: Bank Spreads, Taxes, Executive Compensation and Growth
- William Black’s Comment to Krugman’s Twinkie Manifesto
- Will MSNBC Continue to Shill for the Great Betrayal?
- Why Are There No Famous Financial Whistleblowers in This Crisis?
- The Central Fact that Folks Don’t Get about Fannie and Freddie’s Role in the Crisis
- The Vampire Squid Has Feelings and Obama Is No Longer Her BFF
- Romney Dooms His Candidacy by Doing the Full Murray
- European Views on Financial Regulation (and Other American Evils)
- The Race to the Bottom Produces Regulators Who Are Invertebrates and Epidemics of Fraud
- The Dangerous Myth that Financial Regulation is Unrelated to Financial Crime
- Saletan’s Elegy for Paul Ryan’s DOA Budget Fantasy
- Romney Takes his Political Inspiration from Europe’s Worst Mistakes
- The Dutch Left’s Embrace of the Austerity Suicide Pact: It’s Necessary for the Children!
- The Silver Anniversary of the “Keating Five” Meeting – Citizens United’s Precursor
- ‘The Only Winning Move Is Not to Play’—the Insanity of the Regulatory Race to the Bottom
- (Re) Occupy Greece
- More Proof of Obama Policy of Covering Up for Elite Financial Criminals
- The Anti-Regulators are the ‘Job Killers’
- William K. Black: ‘Enforce the Laws for the 99′
- The Cost of Theoclassical Economics and Economists
- A Suggested Theme for the Occupation of Wall Street
- The Solyndra Loans as Liar’s Loans
- Why Do Banking Regulators Bother to Conduct Faux Stress Tests?
- My Class, Right or Wrong: The Powell Memorandum’s 40th Anniversary
