John Perkins

John Perkins

Hoodwinked: Former Economic Hit Man John Perkins Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded -- and How to Remake Them

John Perkins calls himself a former economic hit man. He has seen the signs of today's financial meltdown before. The subprime mortgage fiasco, the collapse of the banking industry, the rising unemployment rate-these are all familiar to him. Perkins was on the front lines of monitoring and helping create these very events that were once just confined to the Third World. >From 1971 to 1981, he worked for the international consulting firm of Chas T. Main, where he was a self-described "economic hit man." He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Confessions of An Economic Hit Man and The Secret History of the American Empire. Ref. Source 7