Boomerang: Adventures of a Financial Disaster Tourist

Boomerang: Adventures of a Financial Disaster Tourist by Michael Lewis. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781846144844.

Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for us all in The Big Short, Michael Lewis realised that he hadnt 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 tragicomic 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 pinata 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 Lewiss investigation of bubbles across Europe is brilliantly, sadly hilarious. He also turns a...