Boomerang : Travels in the New Third World (CD-Audio)

from RobinThoman

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 normal...

from mldavis2

Lewis is a journalist who specializes in political analysis. This is a thoroughly documented history of economic meltdown in Iceland, Germany, Ireland and Greece resulting from unregulated banking and socioeconomic policies that have failed these countries and that threaten much of the western wo...

from Daniel.Estes

Boomerang could be Lewis' unofficial sequel to his prior book, The Big Short, given that he's now looking beyond Wall Street at the effect of the global financial crisis on specific countries. Those earning a bit of scrutiny are Iceland, Greece, Ireland, Germany and California (not a country, obv...

from GShuk

Explains how countries like Iceland, Greece, Ireland, Germany and the US were hurt by accepting or giving out cheap credit. An entertaining and insightful audio.

from herschelian

If anyone had told me that I would become completely absorbed by a book about the finacial crises which have gripped the Western world during the past five years, I would have said they were nuts. But Boomerang gripped me, and made me laugh several times - mind you, it did help that it is a short...