For anyone interested, here's a good summation of the Brooksley Born story[0]. Its a tragedy through and through. She faced harassment from all sides and her e

For anyone interested, here's a good summation of the Brooksley Born story[0]. Its a tragedy through and through. She faced harassment from all sides and her expertise was brushed off carelessly. Its really truly sad. The same thing happened to Raghuram Rajan from the IMF. He delivered a paper criticizing the financial sector entitled "Has Financial Development Made the World Riskier" which argued that disaster loomed. The paper, which proved accurate, was aggressively criticized by Larry Summers, who served as the director of the National Economic Council in the Obama Administration. He was also ostracized for expressing a legitimately dissenting opinion on how financial markets in their then current form were a great risk the global financial system [0]: https://www.sfgate.com/business/bottomline/article/Brooksley-Born-foresaw-disaster-but-was-silenced-2454453.php https://www.sfgate.com/business/bottomline/article/Brooksley...