Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Big Short, Liarâ€™s Poker and The Blind Side!

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.

The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a piÃ±ata 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.

The trademark of Michael Lewisâ€™s bestsellers is to tell an important and complex story through characters so outsized and outrageously weird that youâ€™d think they have to be invented. (Youâ€™d be wrong.) In Boomerang, we meet a brilliant monk who has figured out how to game Greek capitalism to save his failing monastery; a cod fisherman who, with three daysâ€™ training, becomes a currency trader for an Icelandic bank; and an Irish real estate developer so outraged by the collapse of his business that he drives across the country to attack the Irish Parliament with his earth-moving equipment.

Lewisâ€™s investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American listener to a comfortable complacency: Oh, those foolish foreigners. But when Lewis turns a merciless eye on California and Washington DC, 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.

â€œNo one writes with more narrative panache about money and finance than Lewis.â€
â€”Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster Audio
Binding Audio CD
UnitCount 1
Format Audiobook
EANs 9781442341258
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster Audio
Binding	Audio CD
UnitCount	1
Format	Audiobook
EANs	9781442341258
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

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