17 August 2009

The Great American Bank Robbery


If you suspected that fraud, corruption, incompetence, and coverups at the highest levels are at the heart of our current financial crisis, you're right.

"...ideology enabled criminality and political failure led to economic crisis as Wall Street bought Capitol Hill..."

The Great American Bank Robbery
Video - Lecture
By William K. Black

1. Why do we have repeated, intensifying economic crises?
2. What can white collar criminology add to our understanding of what's going wrong?