Brooksley Born
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Aug 24, 2026
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The Age of Selfishness: Ayn Rand, Morality, and the Financial Crisis — Private Gain, Public Risk
Aug 24 · 5 Mentions
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10:44speaker_0HOST
Okay, so that's the philosophy, but how does that actually translate into the real world where trillions of dollars are at stake? Because the sources give us this very specific, deeply grounded piece of historical evidence to show how this ideology actively blinded the system.
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11:00speaker_0HOST
I really want to talk about Brooksley Born.
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11:02speaker_1HOST
Oh, she is such a fascinating, tragic figure in this whole timeline.
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11:05speaker_0HOST
Yeah, she really is.
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11:06speaker_1HOST
So in the late 1990s, Brooksley Born was the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or the CFTC.
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11:12speaker_1HOST
This was a relatively small government agency tasked with overseeing certain types of financial trading, mostly agricultural futures at the time.
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11:19speaker_0HOST
Right, like betting on the price of wheat or whatever.
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13:34speaker_0HOST
Oh, wow.