{"id":193828,"date":"2008-11-13T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/13\/who-is-brooksley-born\/"},"modified":"2008-11-13T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T01:15:00","slug":"who-is-brooksley-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/13\/who-is-brooksley-born\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Brooksley Born?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funny name, but she is a serious regulator.  In the late 1990s, she <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601109&amp;sid=aVYf8XDXiSZM&amp;refer=home\">was head of the CFTC, and she warned that the unregulated CDS market was a disaster waiting to happen<\/a>.  For this she was vociferously attacked, and now Bloomberg news has an article about how she has been vindicated.<\/p>\n<p>And who went after her for attempting to regulate Credit Default Swaps (CDS)?<\/p>\n<p>Alan &#8220;Bubbles&#8221; Greenspan and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Larry Summers<\/span>, who <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">the very serious people<\/span> inside the beltway are suggesting would be a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">perfect<\/span> Secretary of the Treasury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny name, but she is a serious regulator. In the late 1990s, she was head of the CFTC, and she warned that the unregulated CDS market was a disaster waiting to happen. For this she was vociferously attacked, and now Bloomberg news has an article about how she has been vindicated. And who went after &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}