Recommended Reading

I just read a great book by John Perkins called Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston consulting firm, says he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years., His main job was to convince foreign countries to go along with huge loans for infrastructure development and to make sure these projects were contracted by US corporations. Perkins claims these loans were structured so that the country would be unable to pay the money back under the original terms, leaving them constantly in debt to the US and World Bank. The book is a quick and interesting read for those who are interested.

--Tom Hayes