For Professor Black's call to save America's financial health through the writing of his book 'The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One" and for his previous efforts at combating fraud & abuse within America's finacial system which helps America's manufacturers, Professor Black is hereby recognized as an AmericanMadeHero.com!

Bill Black is an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC). He was the Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention from 2005-2007. He has taught previously at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and at Santa Clara University, where he was also the distinguished scholar in residence for insurance law and a visiting scholar at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. He is a white-collar criminologist and was a senior financial regulator during the Savings & Loan crisis.

Robert Kuttner, in his Business Week column, proclaimed: " Black's book is partly the definitive history of the savings-and-loan industry scandals of the early 1980s. More important, it is a general theory of how dishonest CEOs, crony directors, and corrupt middlemen can systematically defeat market discipline and conceal deliberate fraud for a long time -- enough to create massive damage."

Click here for Prof. Black's 2009 article - = ... "How the Servant Became a Predator: Finance's Five Fatal Flaws"