Boomerang: Travels In The New Third World Unabridged

Boomerang: Travels In The New Third World Unabridged

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Boomerang: Travels In The New Third World Unabridged Michael Lewis AUDIO BOOK CD Type: Audio Book Platform: Audio CD (Ex-Library) Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC Released: 2011 Media: CD BOOMERANG: TRAVELS IN THE NEW THIRD WORLD UNABRIDGEDThe 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 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.The trademark of Michael Lewis’s bestsellers is to tell an important and complex story through characters so outsized and outrageously weird that you’d think they have to be invented. (You’d be wrong.) In Boomerang, we meet a brilliant monk who has figured out how to game Greek ca

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