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William K. Black Quotes

Best way to rob a bank is to own one.

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

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

William K. Black
Senior, Law, Bankers

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

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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