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Nomi Prins

Nomi Prins

Nomi Prins is a former Wall Street executive and author. Her newest book is "Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World" (2019). Her previous books include "Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America" (2006).

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For the next generation, it's already clear that clean and sustainable energy will be crucial to achieving a more equal, economically prosperous, and less climate-challenged future.(Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

A Bold US Infrastructure Plan Should Be the Great Economic Equalizer

To build or not to build? That is the question.

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As Covid-19 grew ever worse while 2020 ended, the stock market reached heights that hadn’t been seen before. Ever. (Photo: Scott Beale on Flickr)

The Martians of Wall Street Have Invaded

As Covid-19 grew ever worse while 2020 ended, the stock market reached heights that hadn’t been seen before. Ever.

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Floating trillions to Wall Street banks and big corporations might push their share prices up, but it won’t solve the issues that truly matter. (Photo: Screenshot)

Here Comes the Great Coronavirus Depression

Crashes, then and now.

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Central banks remain the dealers of choice for addicted big corporations, private banks, and markets. In other words, given congressional (and Trumpian) sponsored bailouts and practically unlimited access to money from the Fed, Wall Street will, in the end, be fine. (Photo: Phillipp/cc/flickr)

Wall Street Wins, Again: Bailouts in the Time of Coronavirus

An all-American urge to offer corporate welfare.

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What happens when serious trouble builds requiring something other than the ability of central banks to combat it with more cheap money? The answer could be a massive, even historic, stock market crash. (Photo: Scott Beale on Flickr)

The Fed, the Virus, and Inequality

A global Dr. Frankenstein at work.

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The bottom 90% are the lucky owners of about three-quarters of the country’s household debt. (Photo: Getty)

Survival of the Richest

Building a great wall of wealth.

Nomi Prins ·

Thanks to the massive accumulation of wealth by a 1% skilled at gaming the system, the roots of a crisis that didn’t end with the end of the Great Recession have spread across the planet, while the dividing line between the “have-nots” and the “have-a-lots” only sharpened and widened. (Photo: Screenshot)

A World That Is the Property of the 1%: Wall Street, Banks, and Angry Citizens

The inequality gap on a planet growing more extreme

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Did the Trump Foundation use any of its funds to benefit The Donald or any of his businesses directly? (Photo: AFP/Timothy A. Clary)

Cooking the Books in the Trump Universe

Could Donald Trump be a one-man version of either Enron or Lehman Brothers, someone who cooked “the books” until, well, he imploded?

Nomi Prins ·

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