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Also by Michael Lewis:

The Premonition, May 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
The Undoing Project, December 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
Liar's Poker (25th Anniversary Edition), November 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Flash Boys, April 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Boomerang, October 2011
Hardcover
The Big Short, November 2009
Hardcover
Home Game, May 2009
Hardcover
Panic, December 2008
Hardcover
The Blind Side, October 2006
Hardcover
Moneyball, April 2004
Paperback
Liar's Poker, November 1989
Hardcover

Boomerang
Michael Lewis

Travels in the New Third World

W. W. Norton & Company
October 2011
On Sale: October 3, 2011
244 pages
ISBN: 0393081818
EAN: 9780393081817
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

As Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy and he is us." 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 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; 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 comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners. But when he 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.

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