01951cam a2200277 4500 361468954 TxAuBib 20111217120000.0 110801s2011||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2011032198 9781611732528 lg. print : library binding : alk. paper 1611732522 lg. print : library binding : alk. paper (OCoLC)745428793 TxAuBib Lewis, Michael, (Michael M.) Boomerang [large print] : travels in the new third world / Michael Lewis. Center Point large print ed. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., 2011. 271 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. Originally published : New York : W. W. Norton & Co., 2011. 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. 20111217. Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009. International finance. Financial crises United States History 21st century.