Michael Lewis Boomerang 2011 Retail EPUB eBook-BitBook

| Boomerang |
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| The Meltdown Tour |
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| DATE: 2012-07-01 SIZE: 570,57KB DISKS: 01_______4,77MB PAGES: |
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| PUBLISHER: Penguin Books GENRE: Business and Economics |
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| AUTHOR: Michael Lewis |
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| FORMAT: EPUB PROTECTION: DRM EDITION: |
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| URL: http://is gd/C8PJdO |
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| LANGUAGE: English ISBN: 978ΓÇô0ΓÇô14ΓÇô197047ΓÇô9 |
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: Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for us all in The Big :
: Short, Michael Lewis realised that he hadn't begun to get grips with the :
: full story. How exactly had it come to hit the rest of the world in the :
: face too? Just how broke are we really? Boomerang is a tragi-comic romp :
: across Europe, in which Lewis gives full vent to his storytelling genius. :
: The 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 piata :
: stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack. :
: The Irish wanted to stop being Irish. The Germans wanted to be even more :
: German. Michael Lewis's investigation of bubbles across Europe is :
: brilliantly, sadly hilarious. He also turns a merciless eye on America: on :
: California, the epicentre of world consumption, where we see that a final :
: reckoning awaits the most avaricious of nations too. This is the ultimate :
: book of our times. It's time to brace ourselves for impact. And, with :
: Michael Lewis, to laugh out loud while we're doing it. :