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Kid Berwyn

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4. The Epstein Class includes Larry Summers and more profits-over-the-people types.

Reply to Botany (Reply #3)

Mon Feb 23, 2026, 01:10 PM

23 hrs ago

Frontline on Brooksley Born:

As head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC], Brooksley Born became alarmed by the lack of oversight of the secretive, multitrillion-dollar over-the-counter derivatives market. Her attempts to regulate derivatives ran into fierce resistance from then-Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, then-Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and then-Deputy Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who prevailed upon Congress to stop Born and limit future regulation.

This is the edited transcript of an interview conducted on Aug. 28, 2009:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/interviews/born.html

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