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Will We Ignore Brooksley Born Again?

Katherine Spillar | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Feminism, Brooksley Born, Derivatives, Msmagazine, Business News
Katherine Spillar

Will the U.S. Congress listen to the echoes of Brooksley Born's voice when they tackle forthcoming legislation to better regulate the over-the-counter derivatives market?

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A Systemic Risk Regulator and a Compensation Tsar? Larry Summers and Ben Bernanke Must Be Kidding

David Paul | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Fdic, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Larry Summers, Brooksley Born, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Bailout, Hedge Funds, CFTC Derivatives, Banking Crisis, Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Wall Street Bonuses, Citigroup, Glass-Steagall, Paul Volcker, Business News
David Paul

With the announcement of record Wall Street bonus pools and rising credit card fees, it is time to sit back and see where we go from here.

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Let Us Now Praise Uppity Women

Linda R. Monk, J.D. | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Robert Rubin, Wall Street, Commodities Futures Trading Commission Brooksley Born, Citibank, Banks, Financial Crisis, Larry Summers, Alan Greenspan, Brooksley Born, Citigroup, Regulation, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Financial Regulation, Business News
Linda R. Monk, J.D.

Women like Brooksley Born have a long history of being whistle-blowers in systems dominated by men. Perhaps this time Congress -- and the American people -- will listen.

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Executive Compensation: The Best Halloween Costume

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

Read More: PBS Frontline, Regulatory Reform, Executive Compensation, Brooksley Born, Derivatives, Business News
Jill Schlesinger

Limiting executive compensation is a terrific way to appease the masses and make it look like you're doing something without having to embark on the hard work of true regulatory reform.

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Newsweek: Why The Financial Inquiry Commission Might Surprise Us

newsweek.com | Michael Hirsh | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Pecora Commission, Financial Crisis, Financial Inquiry Commission, Phil Angelides, Recession, Brooksley Born, Michael Hirsh, Business News

So the public may have just one chance left for satisfaction: Congress's Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, which started work Thursday. The early s...

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Jason Linkins

Brooksley Born Named To Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Nancy Pelosi, Derivatives, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Brooksley Born, Business News

I generally don't think much of high-powered congressional commissions, seeing as they typically exist as busy work done after a disaster to offset th...

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Nominees Emerge For New "Pecora Commission"

Reuters | Karey Wutkowski | Posted 07.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Commission, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Pecora Commission, Bob Graham, Brooksley Born, Wall Street Investigation, Alex Pollock, Commodities Futures Trading Commission Brooksley Born, Bill Thomas, Fred Thompson, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Jake Garn, Congress Wall Street Investigation, Business News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan panel armed with subpoena power to investigate causes of the Wall Street meltdown is on the brink of being launche...

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Reagan Didn't Do It

Robert Scheer | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, Law, Congress, Clinton, Meltdown, Economy, Derivatives, Krugman, Scheer, Obama, Summers, Democrats, Politics, White House, Brooksley Born, Treasury, Rubin, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, Wall Street, Republicans, Politics News
Robert Scheer

Ronald Reagan's signing off on legislation easing mortgage requirements back in 1982 pales in comparison to the damage wrought 15 years later.

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Sheila Bair, Brooksley Born: JFK Award Recipients For Predicting Crisis

AP | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, JFK Award, Sheila Bair, Brooksley Born, Business News

BOSTON — Two U.S. federal regulators who sounded early warnings on the financial crisis and a Liberian peace activist who helped end that nation...

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Profiles in Financial Courage

Robert Kuttner | Posted 06.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Crisis, Brooksley Born, Tim Geithner, Economic Crisis, Profiles in Courage, Financial Crisis, Larry Summers, Sheila Bair, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Business News
Robert Kuttner

The JFK Presidential Library gives a Profile in Courage Award to public officials who took a stand that took a lot of integrity and nerve.

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How Congress Rushed a Bill that Helped Bring the Economy to Its Knees

Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sunlight Foundation, Bailout, Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, Economy, Economic Crisis, Read the Bill, Phil Gramm, Larry Summers, Alan Greenspan, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Brooksley Born, Transparency, Politics News
Paul Blumenthal

If ever there was a case where Congress should have given more time and listened closer, this was it. Now, we're all paying for it.

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