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Boomerang, travels in the new third world, Michael Lewis

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Boomerang, travels in the new third world, Michael Lewis

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Boomerang

Oclc number

745428793

Responsibility statement

Michael Lewis

Sub title

travels in the new third world

Summary

The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a 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 piñata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German and the Irish wanted to stop being Irish. Michael Lewis's investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a complacency-until he turns a merciless eye on California and Washington, D.C

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