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Media Roundtable: Former banker Nomi Prins says central bankers are still rigging the economy

On this edition of Your Call, former investment banker Nomi Prins discusses her new book, Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World.

Prins argues that since the global financial crisis, big banks have massively profited from access to cheap money. She writes, "No significant regulations have been introduced to fix the structural problems behind the last financial crisis. Banks and the markets have been subsidized by conjured-money policy." She calls it a heist that enables the most powerful banks and central bankers to run the world. Ten years after the 2008 financial crisis, how can this rigged system be dismantled?

Guest:

Nomi Prins, former managing director at Goldman Sachs and senior managing director at Bear Stearns, investigative journalist, and author of several books, including Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World

Web Resources:

Daily Reckoning: 10 Years Later, a Debt Crisis Is Building Again

TruthDig: The Fed Boosts Wall Street, Not Main Street

AlterNet: There's An Uncovered Beltway Story Hiding in Plain Sight -- With Trillions of Dollars In Play

Rose Aguilar has been the host of Your Call since 2006. She became a regular media roundtable guest in 2001. In 2019, the San Francisco Press Club named Your Call the best public affairs program. In 2017, The Nation named it the most valuable local radio show.