
"We didn't truly know the dangers of the market, because it was a dark market," says Brooksley Born, the head of an obscure federal regulatory agency -- the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). In the late 1990's she not only warned of the potential for economic meltdown, but also tried to convince the country's key economic power brokers to take actions that could have helped avert the crisis. In the devastating aftermath of economic meltdown, The Warning sifts through the ashes for clues about why it happened and examines critical moments when it might have gone much differently."They were totally opposed to it," Born says of her warning. "That puzzled me. What was it that was in this market that had to be hidden?" The Warning unearths the hidden history of North America's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the center, veteran PBS producer Michael Kirk (Inside the Meltdown) discovers Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multi-trillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008. "I didn't know Brooksley Born," says former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt, a member of President Clinton's powerful Working Group on Financial Markets. "I was told that she was irascible, difficult, stubborn, unreasonable." Levitt explains how the other principals of the Working Group -- former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and former Treasury <b>...</b>
Brooksley Born
Alan Greenspan. Robert Rubin
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Michael Greenberger
Larry Summers
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