Nomi Prins
Nomi Prins is a TomDispatch regular. Her new book, Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World (Nation Books), has just been published. Her previous books include: All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances That Drive American Power (Nation Books) and Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America. She is a former Wall Street executive. Follow her on Twitter: @nomiprins
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Views Thursday, August 02, 2018 We Will Have to Face the Consequences of Donald Trump Getting His Hands on the Economy Here we are in the middle of the second year of Donald Trump’s presidency and if there’s one thing we know by now, it’s that the leader of the free world can create an instant reality-TV show on geopolitical steroids at will. True, he’s not polished in his demeanor, but he has an unerring way of... Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 21, 2018 Imperial President or Emperor With No Clothes? Leaders are routinely confronted with philosophical dilemmas. Here’s a classic one for our Trumptopian times: If you make enemies out of your friends and friends out of your enemies, where does that leave you? What does winning (or losing) really look like? Is a world in which walls of every sort... Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 26, 2018 Donald Trump and the Next Big Crash Warning: What you are about to read is not about Russia, the 2016 election, or the latest person to depart from the White House in a storm of tweets. It’s the Beltway story hiding in plain sight with trillions of dollars in play and an economy to commandeer. While we’ve been bombarded with a litany... Read more |
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Views Monday, March 19, 2018 Jared Kushner, You're Fired! Here we are a little more than a year into the Trump presidency and his administration’s body count is already, as The Donald might put it, “ unbelievable, perhaps record-setting .” Among the casualtie s are Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ; my former boss at Goldman Sachs, economic policy chief... Read more |
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Views Monday, March 12, 2018 Trade Wars and Diminished Credibility As Jonathan Swift once noted : “There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.” That’s the operative motto for all things Trump, one that makes analyzing the gap between what he thinks and what he tweets much easier. Along those lines, my former boss from my Goldman Sachs days—Gary Cohn... Read more |
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Views Thursday, February 01, 2018 How to Set the Economy on Fire: Trump’s Financial Arsonists There’s been lots of fire and fury around Washington lately, including a brief government shutdown. In Donald Trump’s White House, you can hardly keep up with the ongoing brouhahas from North Korea to Robert Mueller’s Russian investigation, while it already feels like ages since the celebratory... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 07, 2017 Steven Mnuchin: Secretary of the Treasury for the .01% Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin doesn’t exactly come across as the guy you’d want in your corner in a playground tussle. In the Trump administration, he’s been more like the kid trying to cop favor with the school bully. That, at least, is the role he seems to have taken in the Trump White House... Read more |
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Views Monday, September 25, 2017 The White House as Donald Trump’s New Casino During the 2016 election campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly emphasized that our country was run terribly and needed a businessman at its helm. Upon winning the White House, he insisted that the problem had been solved, adding, “In theory, I could run my business perfectly and then run the country... Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 08, 2017 Dear President Trump: Breaking Up (Banks) Isn’t So Hard to Do Donald, listen, whatever you’ve done so far, whatever you’ve messed up, there’s one thing you could do that would make up for a lot. It would be huge! Terrific! It could change our world for the better in a big-league way! It could save us all from economic disaster! And it isn’t even hard to grasp... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 02, 2017 The Empire Expands: Not the American One, But Trump’s President Trump, his children and their spouses, aren’t just using the Oval Office to augment their political legacy or secure future riches. Okay, they certainly are doing that, but that’s not the most useful way to think about what’s happening at the moment. Everything will make more sense if you... Read more |