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Commentary / Japan Feb 1, 2013

Mortgage fraud culture has its walk of the stars

by Luigi Zingales

A few criminal convictions have sent a powerful signal in the fight against insider trading. The stars of wider-scale bank mortgage fraud have walked.

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