One woman saw the Great Recession coming. Wall Street's boys club ignored her.
David Gergen: Brooksley Born could have prevented the Great Recession - if only Wall Street had listened. He says she was one of only seven women in her class at Stanford Law School and was first female student ever to be named president of the Stanford Law Review. Born thrived in private practice, but as the daughter of civil servants, she had always dreamed of a government appointment. Gergen says her Cassandra-like warnings could've prevented the financial crisis from exploding into raging, ruinous enormity.