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Let’s Not Wait for the Next Financial Crisis to Nationalize Wall Street Banks

It’s time for quantitative easing, but for the people instead of the powerful. Two guests discuss how to do just that: Nomi Prins is a journalist and former Goldman Sachs director, the author of six books, the latest being Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World. Thomas Hanna is research director at The Democracy Collaborative and the author of Our Common Wealth: The Return of Public Ownership in the United States.

 

Publication date: 2019-10-12
Parent publication: Truthout
Publication URL: https://truthout.org/articles/lets-not-wait-for-the-next-crisis-to-nationalize-wall-street-banks/

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