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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Big Short,

Liar’s Poker and The Blind Side!

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.

The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pi?ata 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 capitalism to save his failing

monastery; a cod fisherman who, with three days’ training, becomes

a currency trader for an Icelandic bank; and an Irish real estate

developer so outraged by the collapse of his business that he

drives across the country to attack the Irish Parliament with his

earth-moving equipment.

Lewis’s investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so

brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American listener to

a comfortable complacency: Oh, those foolish foreigners. But when

Lewis 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.

“No one writes with more narrative panache about money and

finance than Lewis.”

—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

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Michael Lewis is the author of Panic!, Liar’s Poker, The New New

Thing, Moneyball, The Blind Side, and Home Game, among other works.

He lives in Berkeley, California.Dylan Baker's films include

Happiness, Along Came A Spider, and 13 Days. He starred on the TV

series Feds and Murder One. Mr. Baker's theater credits include La

Bete (Tony & Drama Desk nominations), Eastern Standard (Theatre

World Award), and Not About Heroes (Obie Award).

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The interesting thing, said the German financier...is the glass room at the top (of the Commerzbank HQ building), from which one looks down over Frankfurt.It is a men's toilet. Commerzbank executives had taken him there to show him how, in full view of the world below, he could shit on Deutsche Bank.

Other countries used foreign money to fuel various forms of insanity. The Germans, through their bankers, used their own money to enable foreigners to behave insanely.

that was the biggest American financial lesson that the Icelanders took to heart: the importance of buying as many assets as possible with borrowed money, as asset prices only rose.

I never had any respect for bankers. To this day, one of my favorite phrases is: never trust a banker.

In Greece the banks didn't sink the country. The country sank the banks.

"You have to understand," he told me, "Iceland is no longer of country. It is a hedge fund."

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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 pinata 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.