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by NegativeLatency 1835 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit...

Chas. T. Main's former vice president Einar Greve, who first offered Perkins a job at the firm,[1]:10 initially affirmed the overall validity of the book:[12]

> Basically his story is true.… What John's book says is, there was a conspiracy to put all these countries on the hook, and that happened. Whether or not it was some sinister plot or not is up to interpretation, but many of these countries are still over the barrel and have never been able to repay the loans.