The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One

William K. Black is Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His leadership role in investigating the S&L crisis has been widely praised. He recently helped the World Bank develop anticorruption initiatives and served as an expert for Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight in its enforcement action against Fannie Mae's former senior management.

Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgments Theft by Deception: Control Fraud in the S & L Industry; "Competition in Laxity"; The Most Unlikely of Heroes; Keating's Unholy War against the Bank Board; The Texas Control Frauds Enlist Jim Wright; "The Faustian Bargain"; The Miracles, the Massacre, and the Speaker's Fall; M. Danny Wall: "Child of the Senate"; Final Surrender: Wall Takes Up Neville Chamberlain's Umbrella; It's the Things You Do Know, But Aren't So, That Cause Disasters Appendix A: Keating's Plan of Attack on Gray and Reregulation; Appendix B: Hamstringing the Regulator; Appendix C: Get Black ... Kill Him Dead Notes; Names and Terms; References; Index