- Brooksley Born fought tooth and nail to regulate derivatives back in 1998, but she was blocked by Wall St. powerbrokers inside Washington like Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin and Larry Summers. And now Summers and Co. would like us to believe they never saw this derivatives nightmare coming. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/25/ar2009052502108_pf.html 8 comments politics