Nomi Prins, “It Takes a Pillage”

After Words: Nomi Prins, author of “It Takes a Pillage” interviewed by Sen. Bernie Sanders

Nomi Prins, former managing director at Goldman Sachs and current senior fellow at Demos, talks about the 2008 financial crisis and its ongoing aftermath. This is the subject of her latest book, “It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street.”

Ms. Prins discusses her book with Vermont senator Bernie Sanders (I). Prior to coming to the Senate in 2007, Sen. Sanders spent 16 years representing Vermont in the House of Representatives. He currently sits on five Senate committees, including the committee on Labor & Pensions.

Wall Street Will Be Back for More

Jan 10, 2010      TruthDig

By Chris Hedges

Corporations, which control the levers of power in government and finance, promote and empower the psychologically maimed. Those who lack the capacity for empathy and who embrace the goals of the corporation—personal power and wealth—as the highest good succeed. Those who possess moral autonomy and individuality do not. And these corporate heads, isolated from the mass of Americans by insular corporate structures and vast personal fortunes, are no more attuned to the misery, rage and pain they cause than were the courtiers and perfumed fops who populated Versailles on the eve of the French Revolution. They play their games of high finance as if the rest of us do not exist. And it is a game that will kill us.

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Wall Street’s 10 Greatest Lies of 2009

By Nomi Prins,      AlterNet December 28, 2009.

Lies that justify screwing over Main Street.

On December 13, President Obama declared that he was not elected to help the “fat cats.” But the cats got another version of that memo.

Triumph of the Money Party

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Health Care Reform DOA. Why the Surprise?

They Did what they Always Do

Michael Collins

The Money Party is a small group of enterprises and individuals who have most of the money in this country. They use that money to make more money. Controlling who gets elected to public office is the key to more money for them and less for us September 30, 2007

Dr. Howard Dean, MD, just said pull the plug on the current health care reform effort. The cure is worse than the disease according to the good doctor.