Bill Black — Bank of England: Taking the Banks’ Fraud Proceeds Slows Growth

Crime pays! Who knew?

Elite bankers and the pathetic economists who serve as apologists for their frauds specialize in proving our family saying that it is impossible to compete with unintentional self-parody. The subtitle of the WSJ article providing the latest proof is “Fines on banks translate into $5 trillion of ‘reduced lending capacity,’ bank says.” The “bank” referred to is the Bank of England, which is supposed to be the UK’s primary bank regulator. To be kind, the “study” by BOE is so embarrassing that a better descriptor of the BOE would be “fraud enabler.”

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Bank of England: Taking the Banks’ Fraud Proceeds Slows Growth
William K. Black | Associate Professor of Economics and Law, UMKC