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							<title><![CDATA[Are Big Banks Above the Law?]]></title>
							<link>http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2012/12/the-second-great-betrayal-obama-and-cameron-decide-that-banks-are-above-the-law.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the "tells" that reveals how embarrassed Lanny Breuer (head of the Criminal Division) and Eric Holder (AG) are by the disgraceful refusal to prosecute HSBC and its officers for their tens of thousands of felonies are the false and misleading statements made by the Department of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Essence of Crony Capitalism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-10/why-ceos-avoided-getting-busted-in-meltdown-commentary-by-william-black.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The defining characteristic of cronycapitalism is the ability of favored elites to loot withimpunity and the failure of regulators to do their jobs.We have seen this in the financial crisis that started in2008 and in an earlier era, when the savings-and-loan industrycollapsed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Financial Bill Won't Prevent Another Crisis]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/18/news/economy/finreg_law_incentives_bill-black.fortune/index.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration asserts that the financial reform bill the President will sign into law this week will prevent future crises. In fact, it will fail to do so because it does not effectively address those perverse incentives. Indeed, it increases the likelihood of the accounting...]]></description>
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