
Nomi Prins is a renowned journalist, author and speaker. Her most recent book, All the Presidents' Bankers, a groundbreaking narrative about the relationships of presidents to key bankers over the past century will be out April 8, 2014. Her last book was a historical novel about the 1929 crash, Black Tuesday. Before that, she wrote the hard-hitting, acclaimed book, It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street (Wiley, September, 2009/October 2010). She is also the author of Other People’s Money: The Corporate Mugging of America (The New Press, October 2004) which predicted the current financial crisis, and was chosen as a Best Book of 2004 by The Economist, Barron's and The Library Journal, and Jacked (Polipoint Press, Sept. 2006).
She has appeared on numerous TV programs: internationally for BBC World and RtTV, and nationally for CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, CSPAN, Democracy Now, Fox and PBS. She has been featured on hundreds of radio shows globally including for CNNRadio, Marketplace, NPR, BBC, and Canadian Programming.
She has been in numerous documentaries shot by US, Norwegian, French, Dutch and other production companies, alongside other prominent thought-leaders, and Nobel Prize winners, including The Big Fix, Heist, and Plunder.
Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, Fortune, Newsday, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, Newsweek, Slate, The Guardian UK, The Nation, Alternet, LaVanguardia, and other publications.
She is a member of Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) Federal Reserve Reform Advisory Council, and listed as one of America's TopWonks.
Her key-note and presidential choice speeches are thoughtfully tailored for particular audiences, ranging from students to academics to grant makers to lawyers to spinal surgeons to the Mexican Senate.
Nomi received her BS degree in Mathematics from SUNY Purchase, and MS degree in Statistics from New York University, where she also completed all of the required coursework for a PhD in Statistics. Before becoming a journalist, Nomi worked on Wall Street as a managing director at Goldman Sachs. Prior to that, she ran the international analytics group as a senior managing director at Bear Stearns in London. She also worked as a strategist at Lehman Brothers and an analyst at the Chase Manhattan Bank.
She is a Senior Fellow at the non-partisan public policy think-tank, Demos.
lessAuthor, Journalist and Senior Fellow | |
Demos | |
July 2002 - Present (19 years) | |
Demos Group: a global leader in learning and development Since 1972, Demos Group has grown to become a preferred partner of local and international companies, as well as International Institutions. |
Managing Director | |
Goldman Sachs | |
March 2000 - April 2002 (2 years 2 months) | |
At Goldman Sachs, we believe progress is everyone’s business. That’s why we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. |
Associate/Managing/Senior Managing Director | |
Bear, Stearns | |
February 1993 - February 2000 (7 years 2 months) |
New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business | |
MS | |
Statistics and Operations Research |
All the Presidents' Bankers | |
Nomi Prins | |
Nation Books | |
04/08/2014 | |
Based on original archival presidential correspondence, All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power exposes a century of secret relationships and interdependence between America's past 19 presidents (from Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama) and key bankers (from J.P. Morgan to Jamie Dimon.) It explores the shocking ways in which the same people, through blood, mentorship and other symbiotic collaborations impacted American domestic and foreign policy, and shaped the nation's status as a super-power. The book spans the establishment of the Federal Reserve, two world wars, the Cold War, Vietnam, Iran hostage crisis, and all the international economic crises from the Panic of 1907 through today. It divulges the historical alignment of the White House and Wall Street, and presents a haunting examination of America's geneology of power. |
It Takes A Pillage: Epic Tale of Power, Deceit & Untold Trillions | |
Nomi Prins | |
SWN Books; Reprint edition (February 23, 2012) | |
02/23/2013 | |
A Notable Economic Book of 2009 : CSPAN "Having been at Goldman Sachs, Nomi Prins knows how to read spreadsheets, knows the people, and knows Wall Street's games. Nomi knows and now Nomi tells." Jim Hightower, Author, Swim Against the Current "In compelling, scathing prose, Nomi Prins shows how the key players escaped being brought to account, and kept their pet officials in power." John Dizard, The Financial Times |
Black Tuesday | |
Nomi Prins | |
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | |
09/13/2011 | |
In this vivid tableau of the 1929 Stock Market Crash, historical novel Black Tuesday captures the drama, romance and desperation of a distant past that mirrors the present, traversing the beleaguered immigrant community of the Lower East Side to the feral pit of Wall Street and the alluring glitter of Park Avenue. Black Tuesday is an epic saga that probes the terrible consequences of deception, greed and power through the eyes of a young immigrant woman, Leila Kahn, at the crossroads of her destiny. |
The Trail | |
Nomi Prins | |
BookSurge Publishing | |
01/29/2008 | |
A financial thriller by Natalia Prentice (nome de plume) The Trail follows a young financial journalist who leaves Wall Street only to discover a mysterious document hidden deep within a secret Washington, D.C. network. As the body count escalates, she is trapped in a sinister world of off-shore embezzlement and on-shore power plays, where everyone is suspect, and death, dollars and danger fluctuate faster than the Dow. Chosen as a Forbes CEO Book Club Pick 2008 |
Jacked: How "Conservatives" Are Picking Your Pocket | |
Nomi Prins | |
Polipoint Press | |
09/01/2006 | |
"The real message here is that America is indeed a great country whose major malady is bad leadership." Howard Dean, chairman, Democratic National Committee As an insider--including stints as managing director at Goldman Sachs and Bear Stearns--Nomi Prins can speak with authority about the Bush administration's financial chicanery. |
Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America | |
Nomi Prins | |
New Press, The | |
08/01/2006 | |
The current global financial crisis has deep roots. Other People's Money laid them out in specific detail and called it right - eight years ago!.... Exceedingly well documented, this fascinating tale breaks down the interconnected relationships among corporations, Wall Street, and government regulators. Best Business Books 2004, The Library Journal Nomi Prins details the pernicious effects of a failure properly to manage the conflicts of interest at the heart of the financial system...provides the most revealing description yet of what it is like to work for the mighty Goldman Sachs.” Books of the year 2004, The Economist |
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