Much is made of the historical comparison with the Great Depression and today we go back in time to the months that led up to the stock market crash of October 29, 1929 with economist and best-selling author Nomi Prins to discuss her debut fiction work, Black Tuesday. Black Tuesday is the story of Leila Kahn, a young Eastern European immigrant in New York who falls in love with Roderick Morgan, JP Morgan’s grand nephew while the depth of the economic crisis unfolds. Leila learns the shocking truth of the coverup behind the 1929 stock market crash.

Nomi Prins is a journalist and Senior Fellow at Demos. Her latest book is a dramatic historical novel about the 1929 crash, Black Tuesday. Her last book was It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street (Wiley, September, 2009/October 2010). She is also the author of Other People’s Money: The Corporate Mugging of America (The New Press, October 2004), a devastating exposé into corporate corruption, political collusion and Wall Street deception.

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Martina Steiner recorded this interview.