It begins with a father who wants a boy. She was born in San Francisco. Her father was a welfare agency executive for a long time. And he thought it would be great to have a son. His best friend at ...

The story of Brooksley Born is not only the tale of a remarkable regulator whose Cassandra-like warnings — if heeded — could've prevented the great financial crisis from exploding into raging, ruinous ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The Washington Post gets the first interview with Brooksley Born since the crisis started and gives it a good run. Born was the ...

A look at the past often offers insight into the present. The New Republic's John Judis delivers a history lesson with implications for Wall Street's latest mess. He recalls the experience of ...

I like the reading suggestions I get from readers, so I clicked through on bryanfromhouston’s link to this piece by Glenn Greenwald. Greenwald made his name exposing the Bush administration’s disdain ...

The fight between Brooksley Born and other government regulators pivoted on an arcane issue. Over-the-counter derivatives are private contracts negotiated between two investors who are betting on ...

WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) - Brooksley Born, a former head of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission who also warned about unwarranted risks in the U.S. financial system, was appointed on ...

When Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy in the fall of 2008, jolting an already ailing global economy into near-freefall, the whole world was in shock. But one woman could legitimately have claimed ...

Brooksley Born led the Commodities Futures Trading Commission during the Clinton administration. She issued early warnings about "derivitives" and other either unregulated or poorly regulated ...