Prompt Corrective Action Law

William Black Vindicated Re Obama's Non-Enforcement of Bank Closure Law

by: Paul Rosenberg

Tue Apr 07, 2009 at 12:30

Over the weekend, I wrote a diary, "It's the Criminality, Stupid! Bill Moyers/William Black On The Wall Street Meltdown", dealing with regulatory expert William Black's appearance on Bill Moyers Journal (transcript).  Although it was not a main focus of my attention, a commentator pointed to a DKos diary ("Please be smarter than the Freepers") attacking Black as a "liar" because of his remarks about the Prompt Corrective Action Law, about which Black said:

WILLIAM K. BLACK: Well, certainly in the financial sphere, I am. I think, first, the policies are substantively bad. Second, I think they completely lack integrity. Third, they violate the rule of law. This is being done just like Secretary Paulson did it. In violation of the law. We adopted a law after the Savings and Loan crisis, called the Prompt Corrective Action Law. And it requires them to close these institutions. And they're refusing to obey the law.

BILL MOYERS: In other words, they could have closed these banks without nationalizing them?

WILLIAM K. BLACK: Well, you do a receivership. No one -- Ronald Reagan did receiverships. Nobody called it nationalization.

BILL MOYERS: And that's a law?

WILLIAM K. BLACK: That's the law.

BILL MOYERS: So, Paulson could have done this? Geithner could do this?

WILLIAM K. BLACK: Not could. Was mandated--

Now there's a new recommended diary at DKos, "William K Black Responds To Daily Kos Critics" by TocqueDeville, which draws on correspondence with Black about the controversy, and includes the text of a more extensive response Black  posted on the Bill Moyers Journal blog, "William K. Black on The Prompt Corrective Action Law".

TocqueDeville summarizes:

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