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As chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Brooksley Born saw the financial crisis coming. But no one listened.

Andrius Banelis for BI

This is an excerpt adapted from "WOMEN MONEY POWER: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality."

When Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy in the fall of 2008, jolting an already ailing global economy into near-freefall, the whole world was in shock. But one woman could legitimately have claimed she saw it coming.

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One woman saw the Great Recession coming. Wall Street's boys club ignored her.