you are on booktv with author nomi prins. >> hello. i am blind so hopefully your book will have an audio subscription. i will be on the devils advocate side. the way i look at california conversely and arguably. they say it has the sixth largest economy in the world. that's silicon valley. sixth largest point yet we have the highest rate of welfare and poverty than any other state. they say silicon valley takes its money and takes it out of the country but they won't even invest in our banks. that really worries me. i think you're more liberal i would say. i have no problem with that but as long as the money gets distributed right. it seems that silicon valley and the way they run out of our country with the money. you seem to argue the point against wall street but you don't say anything about silicon valley. what would you do about that? >> robert, thank you very much. audio, have you recorded audio versions?>> there are audio versions to all of my books. atleast the last three books that i know of. in fact, the one for collusion , w

this is your chance to talk with nomi prins. here are the numbers. 202-748-8200 eastern/central. 202-748-2001 mountain/pacific. if you cannot get to on the phone lines as to want to make a comment we will cycle through our social media sites as well, twitter, facebook and e-mail, all available to you. we monitor those as well. so nomi prins, now that we have this 100 year history, 100 plus year history that you've written about, has the been a cost to the taxpayer? >> guest: there has been a cost to the taxpayer, also the voter. because when you talk about a major banker who can influence policy and ultimately for example, in the case of j.p. morgan chase, jamie dimon with someone who was on the new york fed board. he was a class a director at the new fed board -- >> host: goldman sachs today? >> guest: no. jamie dimon. he happened to been in the height of the financial crisis when it first occurred also director of the new fed which is the wall street located fed of the 12 member reserve system but he was one of the people alon

nomi prins? >> so going back to what i was saying before, i don't know all the ins and outs of what happened in ghana but from what you're saying and from your question, again, the institutions that were involved in the financial crisis, just to look at our most recent example of just mass fraud, to which some of them admitted or settled, to the tune of multi billions of dollars and for which this fraud still continues. you look at a bank like wells fargo where after the financial crisis, after paying tens of billions of dollars worth of settlements for various mortgage-related and other types of misstatements and fraud, they went about creating fake accounts for their real customers and then charged those real customers fees on those fake accounts which were ultimately discovered to be fake but in the meantime, those people, you know, might just be on the edge of their paycheck for that month or 80% of the country is living paycheck to paycheck and it means something to have fees or to have a cr

. >> host: nomi prins in your book you describe the relationship between banks and presidents as codependentat do you mean. >> guest: what i mean is it changes over the decades. all the figures cover from 1890s until the obama administration but what it means is that in times of war there's a certain relationship for the government turns to bankers to help finance and in times of peace the bakers acquire the presidents help them think more widely and with fewer rules. depending on when there's a financial crisis or global warlike situation the relationship changed but the dependency of one group on the other continued either about money or influence but it was prevalent in different ways to the different presidencies we've had throughout our history and history i cover specifically since teddy roosevelt administration through today. >> host: is there reason a pick that starting point? >> yes. first of all it was only so much time i had in life to do couple of centuries versus one but what happened was as we there was a crisis or crash black to state 1929 and that's not what i start the book

. >> nomi prins will return to central banks when we get into pollution, your most recent book. i want to read two things, one thing from all the presidents bankers, the political and financial alliances between bankers and presidents and their confidence continue to define the policies and laws that drive the economy and from one of your previous books other people's money, you write, the amount of financial sectors wheeled in washington cannot be underestimated. >> that is true. those are both true statements. other people's money i wrote in the wake of thehe enron scandal which were effectively in the energy in the telecommunications sectors they happened because those in banks of the country on all derivative structures and hiding money off of folks in the scandal situation happened, this recession happened and everybody knew about it, but the banks got off relatively free fromfr that. and none of the ceos went to jail, this was 2001 and 2002. but the influence was very highl inin washington because they wee basically saying, this is not enron, they did things wrong. we migh

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