Former Wall Street executive, financial journalist and Truthdig contributor Nomi Prins tells “Democracy Now!” on Tuesday how a small number of bankers have played critical roles in shaping a century’s worth of financial, foreign and domestic policy in the United States, a series of events that she documents in her new book, “All the Presidents’ Bankers: The Hidden Alliances That Drive American Power.”

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