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Collusion
- How Central Bankers Rigged the World
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
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Collusion
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Publisher's Summary
In this searing expose, former 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 listener 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.
Critic Reviews
"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)
"A somber, important warning that's likely to cause readers to wonder about the safety of their assets, if not fear for the near-term future." (Kirkus Reviews)
"[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)
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- Mark
- 20-09-2018
Great piece of work, Nomi Prins
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'.
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- Robert Barwick
- 18-06-2018
Overwhelming evidence
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.
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- Gene W
- 16-06-2018
Propaganda
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.
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