Ever hear of Nomi Prins? She was on WJ this morning and she

[itzamirakul]

was very good. She served as a Goldman Sachs managing director from 2000-2002 under the guy that Bush has just chosen as Sec. of Treasury. She did not paint a really rosy picture of him. When a caller asked her how she felt about "distribution of wealth" and called her a liberal, she accepted the title and agreed that she felt that wealthy should be distributed.

She was good enough to remember her name and watch her in the future.

[acmejack]

1. Nomi Prins is a journalist, Senior Fellow at Demos

and author of Other People’s Money: The Corporate Mugging of America (The New Press, October 2004). Her international finance career fueled this devastating exposé into corporate corruption, political collusion and Wall Street deception. Other People's Money was chosen as a Best Book of 2004 by The Economist, Barron's and The Library Journal. E MEC

Before becoming a journalist, Nomi held a number of Wall Street posts - as a managing director at Goldman Sachs, running the international analytics group at Bear Stearns in London, and as a strategist at Lehman Brothers.

She has appeared internationally on BBC World and BBC Radio and nationally in the U.S. on CNBC, CNNfn, Bloomberg TV and other TV stations. She has been featured on dozens of radio shows across the U.S. including CNN Radio, Marketplace Radio, Air America, NPR, WNYC-AM and regional Pacifica stations.

Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Newsday, Fortune, The Guardian (UK), The Nation.com, The Left Business Observer, LaVanguardia, and other publications. She resides in New York City.

http://www.nomiprins.com/

[itzamirakul]

2. Thanks for elaborating on Nomi Prins's background.

I can't recall hearing of her before though she certainly has accomplished a lot.

I just had a good feeling about her as I watched her on C-Span's Washington Journal this morning because she seemed very open and honest. So I decided that I wanted to mention her name on DU for others to read (perhaps for the first time). I think we should share information about writer/speakers like Nomi instead or in addition to posting rants about nasty RW writers.

I wouldn't spend 5 seconds listening to Ann Coulter but I would happily spend a few hours listening to Nomi.

Heck, let's start helping to promote our own. Maybe more and more of our artists will speak out in support of true Democracy through their various art forms.

And thanks for mentioning her book. I'm going to buy a copy.:-)

[AspenRose]

3. That caller was a jerk

"I want to know how you got your job...."

Sanctimonious jerk!

She did very well in spite of his idiocy.