[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This snippet is interesting:

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What perhaps was the pivotal moment -- Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Brooksley Born's attempt to regulate credit default swaps -- was frustrated by Fed-head Alan Greenspan, SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt and Treasury officials Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers in 1998, during the Clinton administration.

[lentulusgracchus]

Think you might have yourself a smoking gun there, Ernest.