Topic: Bill Black

A House committee heard more testimony Tuesday but took no votes on a package of bills described by union leaders as harassment and by employers as...

We Don't Need "Too Big To Fail"...

Posted on 06/15/11 at 4:21pm by L. Randall Wray . I've been traveling a lot in recent weeks and had the pleasure of meeting policymakers in a...
Posted on 05/31/11 at 9:00pm by webmaster . International Oddities offers a new, innovative way to preview the resinous legal buds before purchase...

I Taw More Handcuffies!

Posted on 05/24/11 at 2:15pm by Karl Denninger . Hoh hoh hoh what's this? . California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris, saying that years of unscrupulous...
Posted on 03/21/11 at 2:12am by William K. Black . One of the paradoxes of effective financial regulation is that the best way to help bankers and...

Rock Hall of Fame Inductees

Rock Hall of Fame Inductees are chosen by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation. Listed on this page are all the music artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame .

Instrumental music of the 1960s

Many rock critics and historians have viewed this genre as a novelty, but? many others disagree: Examples of pop might include "Classical Gas" (1968) by Mason Williams, "The In Crowd"(1965)-Ramsey Lewis, Soulful Strut" (Dec, 1968-early 1969) by Young-Holt Unlimited, "Exodus ...
Yves Smith, Bill Black, and Mike Konczal have already done yeoman's work in seeking to explain the lender fraud scandal in the securitized mortgage market and its possible legal ramifications. President Obama recently used a pocket veto on a bill that ...

Where Have All the Investigators Gone?

As I said before, we're quick to do criminal investigations on BP, but curiously resistant to do the same for Wall Street. Or examined why Wall Street and others were willing to buy millions of fraudulent loans at par? We used ...

Why BP but Not Wall Street?

Just 35 days after the explosion on BP's Deep Horizon offshore drilling rig, (and two months after President Obama himself opened up vast swathes of the outer continental shelf to offshore drilling), the federal government has launched a criminal probe into ...