Nomi Prins

Nomi Prins is the author of seven books, including Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World (Nation Books, May 2018) and All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances That Drive American Power (Nation Books, 2014). She is a former Wall Street executive.

The Donald in Wonderland: Down the Financial Rabbit Hole With Donald Trump

There’s a record of “success” that Donald Trump brought to the presidency. The only real question is: When things begin to go badly for this country, who will he stiff this time?

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President Donald Trump Close Up

Once upon a time, there was a little-known energy company called Enron. In its 16-year life, it went from being dubbed America’s most innovative company by Fortune Magazine to being the poster child of American corporate deceit. Using a classic recipe for book-cooking, Enron ended up in bankruptcy with jail time for those involved. Its shareholders

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R.I.P. Jared Kushner: A Political Obituary for the President’s Son-in-Law

In his brief time in the White House, one thing can be said: his generosity of spirit was second to none. He opened his arms to any financial firm that wanted to help him put the United States on a path back to being great again.

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White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner arrives for a meeting between President Donald Trump and automobile leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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 casualties are Secretary of State Rex Tillerson; my former boss at Goldman Sachs, economic policy chief Gary Cohn; National Security Advisor Michael Flynn;

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It’s Not If the Next Financial Crisis Will Happen – but When

The millionaire and billionaire deregulators extraordinaire of the Trump administration might be taking a “brand-new America” (as the president called it) down a rather old path.

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President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin arrive at the Treasury Department in Washington, April 21, 2017, where the president was to sign an executive order to review tax regulations set last year by his predecessor, as well as two memos to potentially reconsider major elements of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reforms passed in the wake of the Great Recession. (AP/Susan Walsh)

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 mood over the vast corporate tax cuts Congress passed

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The Clintons And Their Banker Friends

The Wall Street Connection (1992 to 2016)

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Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton wave to the media after the family leaves Manhattan's Lenox Hill hospital in New York.

Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton wave to the media after the family leaves Manhattan's Lenox Hill hospital in New York. [This piece has been adapted and updated by Nomi Prins from chapters 18 and 19 of her book All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power, just

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