Summary of John Perkins's The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - E-book - ePub

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was a twenty-three-year-old volunteer assigned to develop credit and savings cooperatives in communities deep in the Amazon rain forest in Ecuador in 1968. I was shocked by the hovels along the runway. #2 I was assigned to help a group of campesino brick makers in the high Andes. I was told that the brick makers needed to improve the efficiency of their archaic ovens, but they came to me complaining about the men who owned the trucks and warehouses down in the city. #3 I had grown up feeling poor in my boarding school in New Hampshire, but suddenly I was making a great deal of money, traveling first class, and meeting with heads of state.
I had it made. #4 I had become so used to my life of luxury that I had begun to take on debt to support it. I had become miserable, and I was operating out of fear - the fear of communism, losing my job, and not having the material things that everyone told me I needed.