William K. Black Quotes

• Best way to rob a bank is to own one.

  William K. Black

  Way, Making Money, Best Way

  William K. Black (2014). “The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry”, p.270, University of Texas Press

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• The senior bankers have obviously decided that it is in their financial interest to repeatedly violate the law.

  William K. Black

  Senior, Law, Bankers

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• If you bring cases against powerful bankers, they will enlist their political allies and they will give very large political contributions to do that

  William K. Black

  Powerful, Giving, Political

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• Apparently modern financial regulators are vastly more sophisticated than we were as financial regulators 25 years ago - because we had never figured out that the key to financial stability was leaving felons in charge of the largest financial institutions in the world.

  William K. Black

  Keys, Years, Leaving

  "Too Big to Jail?". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. October 3, 2014.

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