Journalist Nomi Prins is a distinguished senior fellow at Demos. She is the author of Other's People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America, Jacked: How "Conservatives" Are Picking Your Pocket (Whether You Voted for Them or Not), It Takes a Pillage: An Epic Tale of Power, Deceit and Untold Trillions, Black Tuesday, and All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power.
Prins formerly worked as an analyst with Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs and Bear Stearns.
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