A waste of bits and bandwidth

Things could always be worse; I could be living in the Avalon…

I made my first purchases on Amazon recently. I have no idea how they can sell them so much below the cover price; either the publisher is taking a hit or we are in the book stores.

Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man Link

Perkins, a former chief economist at Boston strategic-consulting firm Chas. T. Main, says he was an “economic hit man” for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business. “Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars,” Perkins writes. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is an extraordinary and gripping tale of intrigue and dark machinations.

Perkins details the manipulation of countries whereby they agree to infrastructure projects which can never be paid back. The infrastructure contracts enrich the American corporations doing the work and enslave the country.

I’m up to Chapter 14 and I have to say, it’s a page turner. There have been many blanks filled in around the Saudi Arabian – American relationship, the Panama Canal and the Iranian hostage crisis. It’s a really good read.