In bed with wall street. This week nomi rins, all the president s bankers. And at the former wall street executives explicit multigenerational relationships to the political worlds that are the basis of power and influence in the u. S. The program is about an hour. Host welcome. I am pleased to have a wall street insider and renowned journalist, author and speaker, nomi prins at chase manhattan bank, lehman brothers, bear stearns, director of Goldman Sachs with a distinguished career on wall street has only distinguished herself further by sharing her expertise by the written and spoken words. Widely sought after by the outlets shes written a number of acclaimed works including other peoples money it takes a pillage and black tuesday. She joins me to discuss the most recent work all of the president s bankers they had their alliances that drives american power. Welcome and congratulations on such a study of this book as we take a look into washington, wall street and the families that
Takes a pillaging black tuesday. She joins me today to discuss all the president s banker presie hidden alliances that drives american power. Welcome and congratulations on such a fabulous book. As we take a look into washington, wall street, and the families that have had such an enormous impact on our nations and the world. Guest thank you so much for that lovel the lovely intro. Host my pleasure and it was easily done again, given a fabulous career that you have had to move on wall street and now off wall street in the literary world it is a pleasure to have you. Lets dive right in. This is an incredibly unparalleled in history of the relationship between wall street, the large banks that have dominated the nation in washington. What motivated you to take on such an incredible amount of effort and exercise to produce this book . Guest a slight bit of insanity i guess. But actually, the novel that i had written, black tuesday, which was on the clash of 29 had a scene that i have rese
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