Economic Hit Men

Perkins confessed: loans designed to fail, nations designed to owe.

John Perkins' 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Man' (2004): his first-person account of engineering inflated-growth forecasts to load developing nations with unpayable debt for contractor and policy leverage. Corroboration is partial — MAIN's role and his employment are documented; the 'EHM' job description rests on his testimony; critics note the memoir's dramatization. The structural claim is separately documented (debt-trap critiques of Bretton Woods lending, the Volcker-shock debt crisis). The node holds the memoir and its evidentiary status honestly, linking IMF structural adjustment and the jackals thread.