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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man Summary & Review: Read the Forecast That Sells the Loan
John Perkins’s 2004 map of how inflated growth forecasts sell giant loans — plus a seven-day TGR test you can run on…
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John Perkins
"If the hockey stick has to be true, you are looking at a sale."
John Perkins (born 1945) is an American author whose 2004 memoir Confessions of an Economic Hit Man described producing growth forecasts that justified huge development loans. He worked at Chas. T. Main after Peace Corps years in Ecuador. The 2023 third edition adds China and climate.
1 book·International finance, debt, and corporatocracy
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Key Ideas & Recurring Themes
The forecast sells the loan
A hockey-stick model is a brochure. The close is the debt.
Follow the contractor
Who pours the concrete if the loan closes is the tell.
Three layers of pressure
Salesman, jackals, soldiers — most rooms are still layer one.
Notable Quotes
"Economic hit men are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars."— Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man Summary & Review: Read the Forecast That Sells the Loan
John Perkins’s 2004 map of how inflated growth forecasts sell giant loans — plus a seven-day TGR test you can run on any hockey-stick model this week.