Jacked: How "Conservatives" Are Picking Your Pocket (Whether You Voted for Them or Not) [Paperback]

Nomi Prins (Author)

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Publication Date: September 1, 2006

As an insider--including stints as managing director at Goldman Sachs and Bear Stearns--Nomi Prins can speak with authority about the Bush administration's financial chicanery.

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About the Author

Nomi Prins has worked at Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and Chase. She has written for the "New York Times, Newsday, Fortune", and "The Guardian" and appeared on numerous international media programs. She is a senior fellow with the public policy center Demos and lives in New York City.

Product Details

• Paperback: 151 pages
• Publisher: Polipoint Press (September 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976062186
• ISBN-13: 978-0976062189
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #229,477 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Nomi Prins is a journalist and Senior Fellow at Demos. Before becoming a journalist, Nomi worked as an investment banker for over a decade. On Wall Street, she served as a managing director at Goldman Sachs. Prior to that, she served as Senior Managing Director running the international analytics group at Bear Stearns in London. She has appeared internationally on the BBC and nationally on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, CSPAN, PBS, FOX and other TV stations. She has been featured regularly on numerous radio shows. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Fortune, Mother Jones, Newsday, Slate.com, The Guardian UK, The Daily Beast, Daily News, The Nation, The American Prospect and other publications. She has a Masters in Statistics and Operations Research from NYU, and is a licensed Rescue Diver.

Her website is http://www.nomiprins.com

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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The effects of George W. Bush's policies on ordinary Americans, in their own words, October 27, 2006

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Although my nonfiction to-read pile is years old and taller than me, I couldn't help reading Jacked first. Filled with vital information about the state of the nation's political and economic health, it reads like a novel. Stories of our nation's ills are told by the ordinary, heroic Americans the author meets in her travels throughout the U.S. Their stories make the book's data come alive. Nomi Prins's sensitive interviews and sharply drawn portraits make it a pleasure to spend time with these people, who share their lives in heart-to-heart talks, free of jargon or political ranting. Their lives are hard, their stories uplifting: it is a relief to know I am not alone in my late-night worries about medical costs, Katrina refugees, and my other struggling, deserving American neighbors. Thanks to Nomi Prins for a valuable, enjoyable, and accessible book on an important topic: how the current U.S. government is vacuuming out the wallets of ordinary people and depositing their contents in the coffers of the wealthiest.

17 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Economics "lite", September 12, 2006

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This review is from: Jacked: How "Conservatives" Are Picking Your Pocket (Whether You Voted for Them or Not) (Paperback)

There's not a trace of academic in this book. It reviews government economic policy through a series of brief conversations with regular people. It's great for pointing out times when the president praised a program while cutting its budget--making policy invisible to those who don't watch the numbers. A good way for economic novices to learn why the field interests so much of the general public. A "must read" for any student who goes straight to the sports page and now needs something to say in class.

10 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Jacked Cons, February 17, 2007

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Though not the most intellectual of texts to be found on the current political environment and the people effected by it, Jacked is nonetheless a must read for those of whom want a story told from the heart and not exclusively from the head. The price doesn't hurt my judgment either.