paul craig roberts, former wall street journal editor and assistant secretary of the u.s. treasury said, quote, the u.s. doesn't have the financial press. it has something better, nomi prins. read this book to understand the central conspiracy against the world economy. please, ladies and gentlemen give a warm welcome to nomi prins. [applause] thank you. one of the great things about writing books is that you actually get to come into all of these places around the country and around the world and the people that read them or will read them and be in these amazing independent bookstores where a lot of stuff happens and they are super important. i will probably and if end if they don't ask questions about it talk about how all this of this stuff impacts everybody at a local level and therefore i always believe what important to be supportive of local and independent bookstores and i thank you for being here tonight. you are all great and with great on camera. so, what i want to do is kind of take you on my journey to this book and while i was writing this book and from thei