{"id":793,"date":"2008-07-06T23:59:29","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T03:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=793"},"modified":"2016-09-20T03:25:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T07:25:28","slug":"tdi-podcast-64-perkins-economic-hitman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/06\/tdi-podcast-64-perkins-economic-hitman\/","title":{"rendered":"TDI Episode 64: Confessions of an Economic Hitman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Guest:<span> <\/span>John Perkins, author of <em>Confessions of an Economic Hit Man<\/em> and <em>The Secret History of the American Empire<\/em>.<span> <\/span>We discuss what exactly an economic hit man is, the American Empire, the challenge from China, <span> <\/span>the collapse of our way of life just to name a few.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0452289572\/investmentadvi09\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-794 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left;\" title=\"secret_history\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/secret_history.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"94\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><a href=\"#podcast\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">LISTEN TO PODCAST NOW<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> | LISTEN @ <a title=\"Zune Subscribe\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/subscribe');\" href=\"zune:\/\/subscribe\/?The%20Disciplined%20Investor=http:\/\/feeds.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/tdicasts\" target=\"_blank\">ZUNE<\/a> &#8211; @ <a title=\"iTunes Subscribe\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/phobos.apple.com');\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-disciplined-investor\/id217999782\" target=\"_blank\">iTUNES <\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">John Perkins is the author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, a startling expose of international corruption that spent over a year on the New York Times bestseller lists and has been published in more than thirty languages. <\/span><a title=\"iTunes Subscribe\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-disciplined-investor\/id217999782\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"60\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-257 alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"iTunes Subscribe\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/itunes_subscribe.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">A former economic hit man, he is a founder and board member of Dream Change (<a title=\"Perkins Dream Change\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamchange.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.dreamchange.org<\/a>) and the Pachamama Alliance, nonprofit organizations d<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">evoted to creating a stable, sustainable, and peaceful world. <span> <\/span>He has lectured and taught at universities on four continents including Harvard, Wharton, and Princeton, and is a champion of <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">environmental and <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">social causes.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>You have to read his books. Start with <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0452287081\/investmentadvi09\"><strong>Confessions of an Economic Hitman<\/strong><\/a><\/em>, then read <em>Secret History<\/em>. 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We discuss what exactly an economic hit man is, the American Empire, the challenge from China,  the collapse of our way of life just to name a few.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6571\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode64.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('6571','http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode64.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/TDI_PlayPodcast-679.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode64.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=793-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode64.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"tdi_episode64.mp3\">Download<\/a> (28.3MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5vtvEVDPUi4221imwhXyXt\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Markets-and-Investing\/The-Disciplined-Investor-p414586\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[71,482,19,297],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-oil","tag-podcasts","tag-politics","tag-show-notes","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}