Frontline
PBS
October 20, 2009
“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] — 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 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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see
William Greider: The Soul of Capitalism (2003)
Max Keiser – Face Off – “Is the Crisis Over?”
The Ongoing Cover Up of the Truth Behind the Financial Crisis May Lead to Another Crash
The Crime of Our Time: Was the Economic Collapse “Indeed, Criminal?” Reviewed by Stephen Lendman
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