Nomi Prins is an American economist, author, journalist, and public speaker[1] who writes about Wall Street and the US economy.

[8][4] She has also offered public testimony[9] to the U.S Senate speaking on the growing influence of private equity firms and Wall Street greed.

Based on original archival documents, the book explores over a century of the often symbiotic, and sometimes-adversarial, close relationships between the 19 presidents from Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama and the key bankers of their day, and analyzes how they shaped US domestic and foreign policy.

She authored a whistleblower book, It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street.

Permanent Distortion details how the movement of money by central banks has influenced global markets and economic policies and furthered the separation between Wall Street and the real economy.