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