Demos


The Ugly Truth Behind Our Financial Crisis

With Demos Senior Fellow Nomi Prins


Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 pm

Location: Town Hall Seattle
1119 8th Ave (@ Seneca St)
Seattle, WA - map


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Last fall, the US government embarked on a huge public rescue of Wall Street, necessary, we were told, to avert a second Great Depression and to save Main Street from a devastating credit crunch. In the sharpest dissection yet of the bailout, Demos Senior Fellow and former Goldman Sachs Managing Director Nomi Prins' new book It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street pulls back the veil of spin, secrecy, and self-interest to reveal the truth about financial power in America.

Join Demos, Town Hall Seattle, and the Elliott Bay Book Company for a discussion with Nomi Prins about the urgent need for real financial reform in America.

About the Author:

Nomi Prins is a journalist and Senior Fellow at Demos. In addition to It Takes a Pillage, Nomi is the author of Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America, a 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. Her book Jacked: How "Conservatives" are Picking Your Pocket (Whether You Voted For Them or Not) catalogs her traveling around the country; talking to people about their wallets, lives, and opinions: card by card - issue by issue.

Before becoming a journalist, Nomi worked on Wall Street as a managing director at Goldman Sachs, and running the international analytics group at Bear Stearns in London. She has appeared internationally on BBC World and BBC Radio and nationally in the U.S. on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, ABCNews, CSPAN and other TV stations. She has been featured on dozens of radio shows across the U.S. including CNNRadio, Marketplace Radio, Air America, NPR, WNYC-AM and regional Pacifica stations. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Newsday, Fortune, Mother Jones, Slate.com, The Guardian UK, The Nation.com, The American Prospect, The Left Business Observer, LaVanguardia, Against the Current and other publications.

Tickets for this event are $5 each. To purchase your ticket in advance, click here or call 1.800.838.3006. Tickets can also be purchased at the door beginning at 6:30 pm.