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Collusion

How Central Bankers Rigged the World

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Collusion

By: Nomi Prins
Narrated by: Ellen Archer
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 In this searing exposéformer Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order.

Central banks and international institutions like the IMF have overstepped their traditional mandates by directing the flow of epic sums of fabricated money without any checks or balances. Meanwhile, the open door between private and central banking has ensured endless opportunities for market manipulation and asset bubbles -- with government support.

Through on-the-ground reporting, Prins reveals how five regions and their central banks reshaped economics and geopolitics. She discloses how Mexico navigated its relationship with the US while striving for independence and how Brazil led the BRICS countries to challenge the US dollar's hegemony. She explains how China's retaliation against the Fed's supremacy is aiding its ongoing ascent as a global superpower and how Japan is negotiating the power shift from the West to the East. And she illustrates how the European response to the financial crisis fueled instability that manifests itself in everything from rising populism to the shocking Brexit vote.

Packed with tantalizing details about the elite players orchestrating the world economy -- from Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi to Ben Bernanke and Christine Lagarde -- Collusion takes the reader inside the most discreet conversations at exclusive retreats like Jackson Hole and Davos. A work of meticulous reporting and bracing analysis, Collusion will change the way we understand the new world of international finance. Banks & Banking Economic History Economics International Deficit Government Banking Great Recession Taxation Export Latin America Imperial Japan US Economy China Capitalism Imperialism Wall Street Global Financial Crisis Deflation Tariff Socialism Russia Economic Inequality

Critic Reviews

"Prins is that rare combination of real-world expertise, scholarly method, and a brilliant writing style. Collusion is urgent and timely. A must-read for savers, students, journalists, and public officials."—James Rickards, bestselling author of Currency Wars and The Death of Money
"[An] unflinching, troubling exposé... well worth a close read by anyone looking to understand the roots of the last crash and prepare for the next."—Publishers Weekly
"After the 2008 economic collapse, central banks created $21 trillion of money to stave off a global depression. But who got all that new money? And how was it used? The always insightful Nomi Prins, after traveling the globe for answers, reveals the shocking truth-and she does it in plain English so everyone can understand the awful facts."—David Cay Johnston, bestselling author of It's Even Worse Than You Think
"Prins has emerged as one of the fiercest critics of crony capitalism and its sustained attacks against poor and working people. This is the book that the financial elites don't want you to read."—Jeremy Scahill, Academy Award-nominee, bestselling author of Blackwater, and cofounder of The Intercept
"Meet the Lords of Finance of the twenty-first century. Prins' in-depth reporting explores how central bankers' political aspirations came to supersede their duties to safeguard their economies. With few options, central bankers will become more desperate with hopes that more collusion will save the day. Read this book to understand how very wrong they are and to fully grasp the danger that lies in wait."—Danielle DiMartino Booth, author of Fed Up and former Federal Reserve advisor
"The US doesn't have a financial press. It has something better-Nomi Prins. Read this book to understand the central bank conspiracy against the world economy."—Paul Craig Roberts, former Wall Street Journal editor and assistant secretary of the US Treasury
"Central banks, led by the Federal Reserve, are the opioids for private banks addicted to being reckless with other people's money. Prins, drawing from her previous work in Wall Street firms and her present field research around the world, says, 'We are headed for another epic fall.' Taxpayers, workers and consumers who will suffer from another bailout, all better read this clear, concise, compelling book."—Ralph Nader
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A forensic account of central banks' policies and operations since the GFC. The concluding chapter pulls no punches but it is hard to resist Nomi Prins' thesis on the back of the historical account of the last decade of 'money conjuring'.

Great piece of work, Nomi Prins

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Nomi Prins has amassed the evidence to prove that, since the 2008 crash, most of the world's central banks, except China's, have colluded to prop up the private banks that caused the crisis, at the expense of the public who were the victims of the crisis. Collusion proves the system needs a major overhaul, beginning with a Glass-Steagall separation of banking that serves the real economy, from the mess of speculation and derivatives that is the cancer in the global financial system.

Overwhelming evidence

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Was interesting to hear the manufacturered conspiracy theories played out in her rendition of the Wall Street game. But now the completely exposed Russia collusion lie that was fabricated by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic national party seems to be all but a foregone conclusion in this person's mind. Which tells me that she is not so much informing as she is indoctrinating. Reading this book was almost like being given a shot of morphine I could feel my mind going numb and rationality leaving me.

Propaganda

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