Chris Dodd, Top Democrat, Fights Against Elizabeth Warren

To punctuate your point, Frontline's "The Warning", about Brooksley Born, the head of an obscure federal regulatory agency -- the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC] -- who not only warned of the potential for economic meltdown in the late 1990s, but also tried to convince the country's key economic powerbrokers (Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan, Larry Summers, et al) to take actions that could have helped avert the crisis.



"They were totally opposed to it," Born says. "That puzzled me. What was it that was in this market that had to be hidden?"



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