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Nomi Prins – “Bailouts, Banks and Pyramids”
Nomi Prins is a writer and thinker, and author of the book entitled, “It Takes a Pillage”. This lecture was called, “Bailouts, Banks and Pyramids”.
Please! Set aside a few minutes and listen to the audio here:
She paints a clear and very disturbing picture of the shenanigans leading up to the financial meltdown, the continuing malfeasance in the banking and investment industry and – even more scary – lax oversight and enforcement inside the United States government.
It’s time to raise awareness of the realities of the current landscape, and also to elevate the discussion (and urgency) of what’s actually at stake and happening – things you probably won’t see on CNN anytime soon.
What is/was the role of women in the creation of this mess? And more importantly, what is the best use of individual and collective power to (a)plan for and protect ourselves and our families, and (b)move things however gradually toward a time and a mindset where feminine power is *at least* equal to men in authority?
The information in Nomi’s lecture is powerful, and so is her presentation. The content is disturbing, and more people need to know about it. As I listened, I couldn’t help but wonder if women, as a group controlling power, would have done something so over-the-top greedy, dishonest and destructive in the short- and long-term. (Of course, there is the matter of Rep. Nancy Pelosi – can a power woman be a ‘good ol boy’ too?)
Look the world-over, and see case after case of male-power screwing things up. A few days before hearing Nomi, in my rumination it occured to me that the same (mostly white) men who consciously engineered and presided over this whole debacle are still in control, most of them still holding the same positions they had all along (if not more powerful positions).
They’re not perfect either, but could women do any worse? Maybe we should find out – soon! Here’s a link about women making better leaders, by the way.
So, we’ve been through cycles like this before (anybody remember the S&L extravaganza from the 60′s to the 80′s?), and it’s just that: cycles. But Nomi Prins makes a chilling point that the numbers and potential impact in play now will make the biggest failures in the past look like monopoly money (my paraphrase).