Nomi Prins

Nomi Prins is an American author, journalist, and Senior Fellow at Demos.^[1] She has worked as a managing director at Goldman-Sachs and as a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns, as well as having worked as a senior strategist at Lehman Brothers and analyst at the Chase Manhattan Bank. Prins is known for her book All the Presidents' Bankers in which she explores over a century of close relationships between the 19 Presidents from Teddy Roosevelt through Barack Obama and the key bankers of their day based on original archival documents. Prins also received recognition for her whistleblower book, It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street, for her views on the U.S. economy,^[2][3][4] for her published spending figures on federal programs and initiatives related to the 2008 bailout,^[5] and for her advocacy for the reinstatement of the Glass–Steagall Act and regulatory reform of the financial industry.

Reception

Regarding her book It Takes a Pillage, author Jim Hightower said, “Nomi Prins knows the mind-set, knows how to read spreadsheets, knows the people, and knows Wall Street’s games. Nomi knows and now Nomi tells.” ^[6]

Regarding All the Presidents' Bankers:

• “A calm, authoritative elucidation of verifiable history” — Financial Times
• “Even those who have read Secrets of the Temple, William Greider’s massive and brilliant 1987 exposé of the Federal Reserve, will find Prins’s book worth their time. She presents a new narrative, one that shows how the changing cast of six has shaped America’s fortunes under presidents in both parties.” — American Prospect
• "Prins divides her justifiably long text into digestible one- to three-page segments and seamlessly incorporates dozens of prominent banker profiles. Her work is highly recommended both to general readers and to students of financial history." — Library Journal
• "A revealing look at the often symbiotic, sometimes-adversarial relationship between the White House and Wall Street... [A] sweeping history of bank presidents and their relationships with the nation’s chief executives" — Kirkus Reviews

Works

Prins' articles have appeared in The New York Times, Fortune, Newsday, Mother Jones, Slate.com, The Guardian, The Nation, The American Prospect, Alternet, New York Daily News, La Vanguardia, and other publications.^[7][8]

Books

• All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power - Publisher: Nation Books (4/8/14): ISBN 978-1568587493.
• It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (9/22/09); ISBN 0-470-52959-8; ISBN 978-0-470-52959-1.
• Other People’s Money: The Corporate Mugging of America - Publisher: New Press (8/1/06); ISBN 1-59558-063-8; ISBN 978-1-59558-063-4. An account of corporate corruption, political collusion and Wall Street deception. This book was chosen as a Best Book of 2004 by The Economist, Barron's and The Library Journal.
• Jacked: How "Conservatives" are Picking your Pocket (whether you voted for them or not) - Publisher: Polipoint Press (9/1/06); ISBN 0-9760621-8-6; ISBN 978-0-9760621-8-9. Catalogs her travels around the USA talking to people about their economic lives.^[9]
• Black Tuesday - Publisher: CreateSpace 2011 - ISBN 1-4635-5766-3. A historical novel about the Crash of 1929.

References

External links

• Nomi Prins
• Video: Tavis Smiley Interviews Journalist Nomi Prins
• Video: Obama Banking Too Much on Banks, DemocracyNow!
• Video: Wall Street's Game, Main Street's Pain
• Video: Recovery is not even on horizon
• Video: Nomi Prins at The Strand, Demos
• Appearances on C-SPAN