Nomi Prins is a journalist, author, a former managing director at Goldman Sachs, and head of the international analytics group at Bear Stearns in London. She has emerged as one of Wall Street’s most knowledgeable, and fiercest, critics. You can tell where she stands on economic issues by the title of her latest book, It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street.
Today, the Truthdig website features Prins’ two-year economic report card for the Obama administration. Prins is a very readable, and even occasionally humorous, writer — one of the very few finance and politics reporters about whom that can be said. Check it out. Here’s a sneak preview of her Obama Report Card:
There are two potential ways to measure the economic performance of a political leader. One is by the profitability, stock prices and executive bonuses of a nation’s corporations. The other is by the financial condition of the majority of its population. Since he came to power, President Obama and his economic team have propped up the former and failed miserably to aid the latter.
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I agree with the assessment, but if you look across the aisle, I don’t see where it would be any different under Republican control. That party is absolutely unified in their open support of the richest Americans and their open contempt for the rest of us.
But like battered wives who stay with their abuser, average Americans keep voting for them.
That’s because Obama is Jewish just like his entire staff and administration. In case you hadn’t noticed Israel has taken over the United States by bribing and blackmailing the Irish and German whites who were formerly in power. Now the Rothschilds and Rockefellers are running the show using esoteric knowledge they stole from the Egyptians and are still hiding from most of humanity. There will be Great Flood Part II in LA this year killing hundreds of thousands or maybe millions.
I agree with the assessment, but if you look across the aisle, I don’t see where it would be any different under Republican control. That party is absolutely unified in their open support of the richest Americans and their open contempt for the rest of us.
But like battered wives who stay with their abuser, average Americans keep voting for them.
That’s because Obama is Jewish just like his entire staff and administration. In case you hadn’t noticed Israel has taken over the United States by bribing and blackmailing the Irish and German whites who were formerly in power. Now the Rothschilds and Rockefellers are running the show using esoteric knowledge they stole from the Egyptians and are still hiding from most of humanity. There will be Great Flood Part II in LA this year killing hundreds of thousands or maybe millions.