Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

by John Perkins

The pandemic taught us that we are a global community vulnerable to unpredictable crises

four pillars of the EHM strategy: fear, debt, anxiety over insufficiency (of food, housing, etc.), and divide and conquer.

The first and second waves of American EHMs promoted a perception that may be summarized as: “If you want your country to prosper, accept loans from the Washington Consensus, hire our companies to build infrastructure projects, and submit to neoliberal policies.”

China’s EHMs focus on fears of poverty