Bill Mitchell has a really great piece up today at his wonderful blog, billyblog. After briefly discussing the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) emphasis on the…
By William K. Black (Cross posted and Benzinga.com) Introduction This is the third column in my series discussing why the FBI and the Department of…
By William K. Black This is the second in my series of articles based on the FBI’s most (2010) “Mortgage Fraud Report.” In my first…
By William K. Black Three Bloomberg reporters have done the Nation a service by ferreting out a scandal of moderate magnitude but emblematic importance. Dakin…
By William K. Black The Obama administration’s continuation of the Bush administration’s refusal to prosecute the elite banksters (or even the vastly lower status CEOs…
By William K. Black This article discusses a simmering feud among five of the most prominent economists in the world (two of them Nobel Laureates). …
Paul Krugman made a remarkable assertion last week about the dwindling legacy of Milton Friedman: … Friedman has vanished from the policy scene — so much so…
Since the crisis of 2008, professional and academic economists have grown increasingly concerned that something is wrong with their profession. Sometimes that anxiety springs only…
Brad DeLong says he often wondered why Milton Friedman was willing to accept the need for government regulation in the world of money and banking,…
by William K. Black I have done a series of articles about the efforts of honest appraisers (which began in 2000) and loan brokers to…
