416: John Perkins | New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
John Perkins (@jperkinsauthor) 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.
What We Discuss with John Perkins:- How corporations and governments use economic hit men (like John in a previous life) to coerce developing countries to auction off their most valuable resources like rainforests, oil, and mines at bargain-basement prices.
- Why these predatory capitalist policies are commonplace and above scrutiny -- even though your tax dollars are massively subsidizing them.
- The dire consequences that transpire when the leaders of these developing nations refuse to play ball.
- How false economics, false promises, threats, bribes, extortion, debt, deception, coups, assassinations, and unbridled military power are used to dominate the developing world now more than ever before.
- What John has learned from his time inside this corrupt system that we can use to transform what he calls a Death Economy into a Life Economy.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:02.8 | They buy a very, very cheap debt on these countries, |
| 0:06.1 | 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. |
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