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Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour Book

Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for us all in "The Big Short" Michael Lewis realised that he hadn't begun to get grips with the full story. How exactly had it come to hit the rest of the world in the face too? Just how broke are we really? "Boomerang" is a tragi-comic romp across Europe in which Lewis gives full vent to his storytelling genius. The 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 pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack. The Irish wanted to stop being Irish. The Germans wanted to be even more German. Michael Lewis' investigation of bubbles across Europe is brilliantly sadly hilarious. He also turns a merciless eye on America: on California the epicentre of world consumption where we see that a final reckoning awaits the most avaricious of nations too. This is the ultimate book of our times.It's time to brace ourselves for impact and with Michael Lewis to laugh out loud while we're doing it.Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    The 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. This title presents a tragi-comic romp across Europe.

  • ASDA

    Iceland Greece and Ireland we know about. On Spain Portugal and Italy we've heard the warnings. Britain is a fear rumbling in the distant background of precarious triple-A ratings. But surely Germany is safe. Isn't it? This title shows how the financial crisis hit everyone in the face.

  • Foyles

    The author of The Big Short investigates the disastrous consequences of cheap credit.

  • 1846144841
  • 9781846144844
  • Michael Lewis
  • 6 October 2011
  • Allen Lane
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 240
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