Think Harry Markopolos is an American hero for continuously warning SEC regulators for years about Bernie Madoff’s record breaking Ponzi scheme, which eventually defrauded investors out of about $50 BILLION dollars?
Then you’ll be even more impressed with Brooksley Born, a true American heroine and former head of the CFTC, who bravely put everything on the line in order to save American taxpayers TRILLIONS of dollars.
In The Warning, veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk unearths the hidden history of the nation’s worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008.
Here’s a video excerpt -
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Anyone still think that I’m being too cynical about Wall Street, politics, and about who’s really running the show?
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