Today, we're joined by John Perkins. John is the author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman along with several other books. As you'll see there's some disagreement between him and Doug Casey, but the conversation is interesting.
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Chapters:
00:00:00 Introduction
0:36 Summary of the book
5:14 Statistics are skewed to the rich
8:30 What are the solutions
10:41 Nothing wrong with profits
15:27 Define capital
19:28 You own the state you own the institutionalized coercion
22:58 Pfizer and the state
24:29 Chinas economic hit man
28:04 Climate change happens
33:28 The migrants don’t want to be here?
37:32 Get rid of subsidies and restrictions
39:35 United States is one large banana republic
46:12 Touching the Jaguar
51:34 Is there a third solution for younger people
56:21 Corporatocracy and the maximization of materialistic greed
