Hello and welcome to Bro economics in this episode I'm going to be looking at the 2004 book Confessions of an Economic hitman and I'm absolutely delighted to be joined by

Bo. Hi thanks for coming on. No, thank you for having me. I hadn't heard of this book until you suggested it,

and it's actually on YouTube as an audio. Yeah, it's an easy one for people to get hold of because it's free and audible,

and I think the full version is on

YouTube as well so anyone who wants it can can get hold of it and it's only about

nine hours which isn't all that long really yeah and I listen to everything on 2 x speeds, it was only like 4.5 hours.

It was, I mean, it was quite easy to get through.

But it is an interesting book though, isn't it?

I found it really interesting, yeah, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Yeah. It's a very interesting, yeah, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Yeah, it's a very influential book.

It's one of those ones that a lot of people have read, or most people have read,

because it's got quite a strong critique of the of the global American Empire, you know, the gay.

And it is kind of building on a theme, you know, I'm reminded of that quote by John Adams as I was reading it.

John Adams said there's only two sure ways to conquer a nation.

One is through the sword, the other is through debt.

And that's essentially what this book is going on about.

So should we start by describing the basic scam

that's outlined in this thing?

So the basic scam is the US will through intermediaries such as big corporations will go into a country

and present them with these massively inflated economic plans of what they can do for this country.

So they will go into a Guatemala or Venezuela or whatever it is.

I mean, hopefully in Iraq, or they actually did it with Saudi and they will say okay so you know

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