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Podcast on short sabbatical due to unexpected fractured wrist. Just out in paperback is 'Collusion' by Nomi Prins, ( )a searing exposé, in which this former Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order.Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks with her here for @KGNU #ItsTheEconomy.  Central banks and international institutions like the IMF have, says Prins, overstepped their traditional mandates by directing the flow of epic sums of fabricated money without any checks or balances. Meanwhile, the open door between private and central banking has ensured endless opportunities for market manipulation and asset bubbles--with government support.   Through on-the-ground reporting, Prins reveals how five regions and their central banks reshaped economics and geopolitics. She discloses how Mexico navigated its relationship with the US while striving for independence and how Brazil led the BRICS countries to challenge the US dollar's hegemony. She explains how China's retaliation against the Fed's supremacy is aiding its ongoing ascent as a global superpower and how Japan is negotiating the power shift from the West to the East. And she illustrates how the European response to the financial crisis fueled instability that manifests itself in everything from rising populism to the shocking Brexit vote.   Packed with tantalizing details about the elite players orchestrating the world economy--from Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi to Ben Bernanke and Christine Lagarde--Collusion takes the reader inside the most discreet conversations at exclusive retreats like Jackson Hole and Davos. A work of meticulous reporting and bracing analysis, Collusion will change the way we understand the new world of international finance.

Claudia Cragg, @KGNUClaudia speaks here for @KGNU #ItsTheEconomy with Ed Hess () about what he sees as the urgent need to modernize and deeply reform the present state of capitalism.  Hess argues that we are now on the leading edge of a tsunami of coming technological and scientific advances in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI); the Internet of Things; virtual reality; advanced robotics; nanotechnology; deep learning; and biomedical, genetic, and cyborg engineering. Along with quantum computing power and global connectivity, these advances will fundamentally change how most of us live and work. The Digital Age, he maintains, has both the potential to be as disruptive and and also transformative for us as the Industrial Revolution was for our ancestors. If not proactively and preemptively managed, that disruption will threaten our capitalist system and democracy and destroy what’s left of the American Dream.

@KGNUClaudia, Claudia Cragg, speaks here withTomas Chamorro-Premuzic (about his timely and provocative book. Two powerful questions are asked by the author: Why is it so easy for incompetent men to become leaders? And why is it so hard for competent people--especially competent women--to advance? And this is no feminist diatribe, rest assured. It serves as a practical and much-needed remedy for our times.  Marshaling decades of rigorous research, Chamorro-Premuzic points out that although men make up a majority of leaders, they underperform when compared with female leaders. In fact, most organizations equate leadership potential with a handful of destructive personality traits, like overconfidence and narcissism. In other words, these traits may help someone get selected for a leadership role, but they backfire once the person has the job. When competent women--and men who don't fit the stereotype--are unfairly overlooked, we all suffer the consequences. The result is a deeply flawed system that rewards arrogance rather than humility, and loudness rather than wisdom. There is a better way. With clarity and verve, Chamorro-Premuzic shows us what it really takes to lead and how new systems and processes can help us put the right people in charge. Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is an international authority in psychological profiling, consumer analytics, and talent management. He is the CEO at Hogan Assessments, Professor of Business Psychology at University College London (UCL), Visiting Professor at Columbia University, and has previously taught at New York University and the London School of Economics. Dr Tomas has published 8 books and over 120 scientific papers (h index 41), making him one of the most prolific social scientists of his generation. His work has received awards by the American Psychological Association and the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, to which he is now director. Dr Tomas is also the director of UCL’s Industrial-Organisational and Business Psychology programme, and an Associate to Harvard’s Entrepreneurial Finance Lab. He is also the co-founder of , a digital start-up that enables organisations to identify individuals with entrepreneurial talent. He lives in London and New York.

@KGNUClaudia, Claudia Cragg, speaks here for @KGNU with CEO and Founder of Erica Meltzer. Meltzer has, for years, been at the forefront of preparing students for the verbal portion of the SATs and other admissions tests.   Her range of best-selling test prep books help students conquer the SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT, and AP English & Composition. With over 100,000 copies sold, her SAT and ACT Reading and Writing guides consistently rank at the top of their respective categories on Amazon, outperforming comparable guides produced by Kaplan, Princeton Review, and Barron’s. Before founding her company, Meltzer worked as a private tutor for several years, so has in-depth knowledge of why parents would be motivated to find loopholes in the cut-throat college admissions process.

@KGNUClaudia speaks here for KGNU Denver/Boulder/Fort Collins with Vlatka Hlupic for #ItsTheEconomy Despite decades of research illustrating the benefits of enlightened leadership, the high-performance workplace is still not the norm. Vlatka Hlupic (@VlatkaHlupic) has spent 20 years investigating this paradox, and in this book she forms a penetrating critique of why such strong evidence has had limited impact, and provides an alternative practical approach that any employer can implement to overcome these challenges. Humane Capital brings together management wisdom and shows how successful leaders have moved their organizations from controlled and orderly to enthusiastic and collaborative. Supported by insights from 50 of the leading thinkers and practitioners in the field, the book guides readers through the arguments for a radical reassessment of current business models, and the successful stories of employers from the private and public sectors who have made the transition. There is a clear correlation, she believes, between those companies that are 'good' and those that do well--"good" meaning an organization that works with stakeholders, employees, society and customers. The book illustrates what steps need to be taken by managers and leaders in order to create a good, humane organization and achieve a high-performance workplace and sustainable success.

For @KGNU Denver/Boulder/Fort Collins #ItsTheEconomy, Claudia Cragg () discusses '', in which Jonathan Karmel ( raises our awareness of unsafe working conditions with accounts of workers who were needlessly injured or killed on the job. Based on heart-wrenching interviews Karmel conducted with injured workers and surviving family members across the country, the stories in this book are introduced in a way that helps place them in a historical and political context. They represent a wide survey of the American workplace, including, among others, warehouse workers, grocery store clerks, hotel housekeepers, and river dredgers.    Karmel’s examples are portraits of the lives and dreams cut short and reports of the workplace incidents that tragically changed the lives of everyone around them. Dying to Work includes incidents from industries and jobs that we do not commonly associate with injuries and fatalities and highlights the risks faced by workers who are hidden in plain view all around us. While exposing the failure of safety laws that leave millions of workers without compensation and employers without any meaningful incentive to protect their workers, Karmel offers the reader some hope in the form of policy suggestions that may make American workers safer and employers more accountable. This is a book for anyone interested in issues of worker health and safety, and it will also serve as the cornerstone for courses in public policy, community health, labor studies, business ethics, regulation and safety, and occupational and environmental health policy.

@KGNUClaudia, Claudia Cragg, speaks here with Steve Luxenberg, @the author of Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation and the critically acclaimed Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret. During his thirty years as a Washington Post senior editor, he has overseen reporting that has earned numerous national honors, including two Pulitzer Prizes. Separate won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with “separate but equal,” created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the nineteenth century, whose outcome embraced and protected segregation, and whose reverberations are still felt into the twenty-first.  Separate spans a striking range of characters and landscapes, bound together by the defining issue of their time and ours?race and equality. Wending its way through a half-century of American history, the narrative begins at the dawn of the railroad age, in the North, home to the nation’s first separate railroad car, then moves briskly through slavery and the Civil War to Reconstruction and its aftermath, as separation took root in nearly every aspect of American life.

@KGNUClaudia, Claudia Cragg, speaks here with  She is author of ''. Sayu Bhojwani served as New York City's first Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs, for then Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and is also the founder of South Asian Youth Action, a community-based organization in Queens. Since 2010, she has served as Founder and President of . Bhojwani's work to build a more inclusive democracy has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and in the New York Times. She has shared her personal journey in The National and contributes frequently to the The Huffington Post and Medium. focuses on the importance of immigrants to American democracy. Application for the Ready to Lead candidate training - .    People can also find out more about the RTL program on the website - .

Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here with JJ Mulligan Sepulveda. He is the son of proud mother @emmanvch. Sepulveda is an immigration lawyer working at the Immigration Law Clinic at the University of California Davis School of Law. He is a former Immigrant Justice Corps fellow and Fulbright Scholar. This is his first book. For the second anniversary of President Trump’s Muslim Ban, which banned individuals from seven Muslim countries from entering the US—regardless of legal status. Immigration attorney J.J. Mulligan Sepúlveda was among the many fearless lawyers who rallied together and offered services to those being detained, and their families eagerly awaiting their entry. His new book, NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL: An Attorney on the Frontlines of the Immigration War (Melville House Publishing) pulls back the curtain on the inhumane legal world of immigration reform that is currently coming to fruition in the US. He offers an inside look at how the United States controls and handles immigration in our country.  Alternating between memoirist accounts of his own beginnings as an immigration lawyer, and enlightening commentary on the backchannels and bureaucracy of immigration reform, NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL offers new insight and fascinating history to one of our country’s most important issues.

Claudia Cragg, @KGNUClaudia, speaks with (about the lack of affordable housing for low- and middle-income people where homeownership is often, even in 2019, limited by race and class lines. Shaw will be making an appearance to talk about the book at the on Tues. 12th March at 7:30 pm, and at on 13 March 2019, at 7 pm. Shaw, the director of San Francisco's Tenderloin Housing Clinic ( has written a book about the housing crisis,  "Generation Priced Out criticizes cities for advancing policies that increase economic and racial inequality. Shaw also exposes how boomer homeowners restrict millennials' access to housing in big cities, a generational divide that increasingly dominates city politics. Defying conventional wisdom, Shaw demonstrates that neighborhood gentrification is not inevitable and presents proven measures for cities to preserve and expand their working- and middle-class populations and achieve more equitable and inclusive outcomes."