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Lewis, Michael,
(Michael M.)
Boomerang :
Travels In The New Third World /
Michael Lewis (Michael M.).
1st ed.
New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
2011.
213 p :
hardbound ;
22 cm.
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Preface: The biggest short -- Wall Street on the tundra -- And they invented math -- Ireland's original sin -- The secret lives of Germans -- Too fat to fly.
Publishers Weekly,
December 05, 2011.
Kirkus Reviews,
November 15, 2011.
Library Journal,
October 28, 2011.
Library Journal Prepub Alert,
December 06, 2010.
The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a piƱata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish. This investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners. But when he turns a merciless eye on California and Washington, D.C., we see that the narrative is a trap baited with humor, and we understand the reckoning that awaits the greatest and greediest of debtor nations.--Publisher.
20121205.
Global Financial Crisis
2008-2009.
International finance.
Financial crises
United States
History
21st century.
International economic relations.
Investors.
Economics.
Societies.