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008    110720s2011    nyu           000 0 eng   
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020    9780393081817|q(hardcover|c$25.95) 
020    0393081818|q(hardcover) 
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050 00 HB3717 2008|b.L49 2011 
082 00 330.9/0511|223 
100 1  Lewis, Michael|q(Michael M.) 
245 10 Boomerang :|btravels in the new Third World /|cMichael 
       Lewis. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bW.W. Norton & Company,|c2011. 
300    xxi, 213 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 0  The biggest short -- Wall Street on the tundra -- And they
       invented math -- Ireland's original sin -- The secret 
       lives of Germans -- Too fat to fly. 
520    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. 
650  0 Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009. 
650  0 International finance. 
650  0 Financial crises|zUnited States|xHistory|y21st century. 
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