William Black – Wall Street Corruption is Worse Than You Know. Mainstreet Needs to get Educated to Reclaim our Country!

This episode will shed light into the 2008 crisis that was filled with corruption and cover-ups.  William Black explains the real details behind the source of the crisis and what we are still dealing with today. Inside accounts of the players and scams are discussed to expose what really happened. We discuss the new scams that have come to light recently and what we can do as a citizen and as a community to make meaningful changes for the better.

Bill Black is an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC) and the Distinguished Scholar in Residence for Financial Regulation at the University of Minnesota’s Law School.  He is a white-collar criminologist.  He was the Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention from 2005-2007.  He taught previously at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and at Santa Clara University, where he was also the distinguished scholar in residence for insurance law and a visiting scholar at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.  He is the editor of and frequent contributor to New Economic Perspectives blog.

You can contact Professor Black at the following:

e mail:               [email protected]

blogs:                http://neweconomicperspectives.blogspot.com

http://www.benzinga.com/users/william-k-black

SSRN:               http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dez/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=658251

Twitter:            @WilliamKBlack