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The Jordan Harbinger Show

416: John Perkins | New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Talk Radio, Business, Science, Education

4.812.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

John Perkins is an economist who has advised the World Bank, United Nations, Fortune 500 corporations, and the US government. He is the author of The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

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Coming up on the Jordan Harbinger Show.

0:02.8

They buy a very, very cheap debt on these countries,

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and then they go back to the countries and say,

0:07.8

hey, you've got to pay us a lot of money,

0:10.1

and we'll litigate against it, because we're holding this paper,

0:12.5

and we're going to go after you.

0:13.8

And if you can't pay in cash, then pay in resources,

0:17.4

or pay in cheap labor markets, or whatever.

0:19.8

We weren't helping the poor get better lives.

0:22.7

We were helping the rich get richer.

0:24.4

We were helping the United States colonize a great deal

0:27.0

of the world, US corporations primarily.

0:30.0

And I get to say, those techniques

0:32.1

are not winning us trends around the world.

0:34.4

Welcome to the show.

0:41.2

I'm Jordan Harbinger.

0:42.5

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0:44.2

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0:46.5

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0:48.0

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0:50.4

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0:52.4

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