A former Wall Street executive with firms including Goldman-Sachs, Bear Stearns, and Lehman Brothers, Prins has an intimate understanding of how banking works. She revealed the close relationships between bankers and nineteen presidents in All the Presidents’ Bankers, and her latest book examines how public and private banks are increasingly working together to control global markets and dictate economic policy. Her exposé details how public institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank are growing dependent on funding from private banking, traces the roles of some of the major figures of finance, and explains what this means at both the local and global levels. Prins, a frequent commentator on the dangerous nexus between politics and finance, served on Bernie Sanders’s Federal Reserve Reform Advisory Council.