In a recent paper ( on pages 285 – 87 ), Steven Gjerstad and Nobel laureate Vernon L. Smith describe more fully ( 1 ) the contribution of derivatives to the flow of mortgage funds that supported the housing bubble, ( 2 ) the concerns that Brooksley Born had raised about the dangers inherent in these contracts, ( 3 ) Summers's contribution to their deregulation, and ( 4 ) how these contracts precipitated the collapse of the financial system in 2007 and 2008.

" 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.

* Brooksley Born ( 1964 ), first woman named to the ABA Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary

Brooksley Born and her chairmanship of the Commission from August 26, 1996, to June 1, 1999, was the focus of an October 2009 Frontline documentary titled " The Warning " and was also chronicled in the documentary Inside Job.

Brooksley Born resigned on June 1, 1999, and later commented the failure of Long-Term Capital Management and the subsequent bailout as being indicative what she had been trying to prevent.

* Brooksley E. Born ( Chairperson 8 / 26 / 96-6 / 1 / 99 ) 4 / 15 / 94 – 4 / 15 / 99, 8 / 26 / 96 – 6 / 1 / 99

" 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.

Brooksley Born, CFTC Chair, 1996-June 1, 1999

The CFTC expressed dismay over the Broker-Dealer Lite proposal and the manner in which it was issued, but also noted it was 18 months into a “ comprehensive regulatory reform effort .” The same day the CFTC issued its “ concept release ” Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, Federal Reserve Board Chair Alan Greenspan, and SEC Chair Arthur Levitt ( who, along with CFTC Chair Brooksley Born, were the members of the PWG ) issued a letter asking Congress to prevent the CFTC from changing its existing treatment of OTC derivatives.

CFTC Chair Brooksley Born replied that the CFTC had exclusive authority over “ futures ” under the CEA and could not allow the other PWG members to dictate the CFTC ’ s authority under that statute.

In 1997, Rubin and Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan strongly opposed giving the Commodity Futures Trading Commission oversight of over-the-counter credit derivatives when this was proposed by Brooksley Born, the head of the CFTC.

* 2009: Brooksley Born

He was divorced and had two children with former spouse, attorney Brooksley E. Born.

Notable past presidents include Warren Christopher ( 1949 ), Brooksley E. Born ( 1964 ), Raymond C. Fisher ( 1966 ), David F. Levi ( 1980 ), and Paul G. Cassell ( 1984 ).

* Brooksley Born-Chairwoman, U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Born from a noble family of the province of Soule, his father Michel was born in Arrast-Larrebieu and his mother was Irish.

In his book Born Again ( 1976 and 2008 ), Watergate conspirator Chuck Colson describes his path to faith in conjunction with his criminal imprisonment and played a significant role in solidifying the " born again " identity as a cultural construct in the US.

Born in Toronto, Canada, Cronenberg was the son of Esther ( born Sumberg ), a musician, and Milton Cronenberg, a writer and editor.

* Fiji Born Indian referring to people of Indian origin who were born in Fiji

Born Allan George See in Mount Kisco, New York, the older of two children, born to Margaret ( née Shea ) See ( 1906-2004 ), who was a middle school dropout, who in turn worked for Reader's Digest.

Born as Nguyễn Xuân Bảo, Nhất Hạnh was born in the city of Quảng Ngãi in Central Vietnam ( Thừa Thiên ) in 1926.

Born to Alexander Beaton Ferguson, a plater's helper in the shipbuilding industry, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Hardie, Alex Ferguson was born at his grandmother's home on Shieldhall Road, Govan, on 31 December 1941, but grew up in a tenement at 667 Govan Road ( which has since been demolished ) where he lived with his parents as well as his younger brother Martin.

Born at Halle an der Saale and baptized at Kirche St. Moritz on 7 August 1737, Struensee was the third child of six born to Pietist theologian and minister Adam Struensee ( baptized in Neuruppin on 8 September 1708 – Rendsburg, 20 June 1791 ), Pfarrer (" curate ") in Halle an der Saale in 1732, " Dr. theol.

Born in Frankfurt, Anton de Bary was one of ten children born to physician August Theodor de Bary ( 1802 – 1873 ) and Emilie Meyer de Bary.

Olivia Newton-John was born in Cambridge, England, to a Welsh father, Brinley (" Bryn ") Newton-John, and a Berlin-born mother, Irene Helene ( Born ), the eldest child of the Nobel prize-winning atomic physicist Max Born.

Born the son of Jeffrey Amherst ( d. 1750 ), a Kentish lawyer, and Elizabeth Amherst ( née Kerrill ), Jeffery Amherst was born in Sevenoaks, England, on 29 January 1717.

Born in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of Montmartre who were born there.

Born in Lipnik ( Kunzendorf ) near Bielitz, Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire ( today a part of Bielsko-Biała, Poland ), Schnabel was the youngest of three children born to Isidor Schnabel, a textile merchant, and his wife Ernestine ( née Labin ).

Born Vickie Lynn Hogan in Harris County, Texas, Anna Nicole was the child of Donald Eugene Hogan ( July 12, 1947 – September 19, 2009 ) and Virgie Mae ( née Tabers ; born July 12, 1951 ), who married on February 22, 1967 and divorced on November 4, 1969.

Born in Mulhouse ( Mülhausen ) in Alsace, Dreyfus was the youngest of nine children born to Raphael and Jeannette Dreyfus ( née Libmann ).

Frank Miller ( born January 27, 1957 ) is an American writer, artist, and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300.

Born in Washington, D. C., he was one of five children and the eldest son born to Presbyterian minister Allen Macy Dulles and his wife Edith ( Foster ).

* Barry J. Ratcliffe, actor was born in Rocky Mount VA March 6, 1962, Born and raised on a farm in the mountains of Virginia, Barry Ratcliffe was the youngest of 7 among 5 boys and 2 girls.

Born in January 1860 in Topeka, Kansas Territory prior to the arrival of statehood in January 1861, Vice President Curtis is notable as an Executive Branch officer born in a territory rather than state of the Union.

* Chancy Croft ( born 1937 ) Born in Jennings.

* Bruce Springsteen ( born 1949 ), born in Long Branch and raised in Freehold Borough, New Jersey, wrote Born to Run in a cottage here.

Giovanni Turini, a sculptor from Italy, who was born in 1841 and died in 1899, made the statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi, a man he served in the fighting surrounding the unification of Italy, in Washington Square, and also the bust of Giuseppe Mazzini in Central Park ; Actress Anne Bancroft ( Brooks ) ( Born: September 17, 1931 – Died: June 6, 2005 ).

Born in Edinburgh, Rory Bremner was born to Major Donald Stuart Ogilvy Bremner ( December 1907 – 1979 ) ( who was 53 years old at Rory's birth ) and his second wife Ann Simpson ( 1922 – 2001 ).

He was replaced as the director of Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), but he went on to direct The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), A Star Is Born ( 1954 ) and My Fair Lady ( 1964 ).

Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, he was a member of the Althing in 1914 – 1916 and 1920, and after Iceland's independence from Denmark in 1918 he acted as minister to Denmark during 1920 – 1924 and 1926 – 1940.

Born in Jericho, New York, he received a bachelor of science from Yale University and attended Harvard Law School before enlisting in the United States Navy Reserve as a Seaman Second Class on 8 November 1940.

1940: Born in Kham, Eastern Tibet.

Born in Detroit, and trained at the University of Michigan ( A. B 1940 ), he pioneered the use of eye-blink analysis to obtain clues about subjects ' levels of emotional tension when exposed to various stimuli.

Born in Ellinwood, Kansas, Hickel relocated to Alaska in 1940, going into the local real estate industry.

Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne, in 1940, Carter was evacuated as a child to live in Yorkshire with her maternal grandmother.

Among the films she made during the height of her career in the mid-to-late 1930s were Born to Dance ( 1936 ), Rosalie ( 1937 ), Broadway Melody of 1938 ( 1937 ), Honolulu ( 1939 ), and Broadway Melody of 1940 ( 1940 ).

( 1985 ) which spotlight her dancing from films such as Broadway Melody of 1940, Lady Be Good, and Born to Dance.

Born John Vivian McVea in Los Angeles, California, and playing jazz in Los Angeles for several years, he joined Lionel Hampton's orchestra in 1940.

Born in New Jersey, MacRae graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1940 and served as a navigator in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.

Born in Staudach-Egerndach, Bavaria, Brandl entered Ravensbrück concentration camp in March 1940 to begin her training under SS-Oberaufseherin Maria Mandel.

Born September 12, 1940, in Jamestown, Tennessee, Crouch currently resides in Washington DC with his wife, the former Anne Novotny.

Born in Hong Kong to Yen Chuen Yih Dunn and Bessie Dunn on 29 February 1940, Lydia Dunn is married to Michael David Thomas ( 唐明治 ), CMG, QC, Attorney General of Hong Kong from 1983 to 1988.

Born in 1940, and escaping the most accurate V1 aimed at its ‘ bull ’ s eye ’ Oxford Circus by only one street, Stuart Holland was educated at State primary schools, Christ ’ s Hospital and Balliol College, Oxford.

Born in 1922 in Aktamysh in the Tatar ASSR ( now Russia's Republic of Tatarstan ) in 1922, Afanasyev joined the Red Army in 1940 and served with the Soviet paratroopers in the 1940s and World War II, remaining in the armed forces until 1953.

Born to working-class parents, he joined the Deutsches Jungvolk division of the Hitler Youth in 1937, and was excluded for resisting orders in 1940.

Born in Rochester, New York, he worked a record 18 World Series: 1908, 1909, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1934 and 1940.

Born in London in 1930, he moved with his family in 1940 to Painswick, Gloucestershire, where he spent his formative years, becoming a young member of the village dramatic society.

Born in Ivanteyevka, Moscow Oblast on September 28, 1940.

Born as Francis Ross in 1940 in Dublin, he was educated at Marlborough Street National School and Dublin Institute of Technology.

Born in Shelbyville, Indiana, Wilbur Shaw won the Indianapolis 500 race three times, in 1937, 1939 and 1940.