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008			110720s2011 nyu 000 0 eng
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020			_a9780393081817 (hardcover)
020			_a0393081818 (hardcover)
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050	0	0	_aHB3717 2008 _b.L49 2011
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100	1		_aLewis, Michael _q(Michael M.)
245	1	0	_aBoomerang : _btravels in the new Third World / _cMichael Lewis.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bW.W. Norton & Co., _cc2011.
300			_axxi, 213 p. ; _c22 cm.
365			_b25.95 usd
505	0		_aPreface: 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			_aAs Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy and he is us." In this book the author offers a scathing assessment of fiscal blunders in foreign lands, and details how economic repercussions are sure to be felt on American soil. Financial bubbles grew and burst, not only in the U.S. but in countries as diverse as Iceland, Germany, and Greece. Mixing humor with prescient insight, he depicts a precarious situation that demands attention. 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. This investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so 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, D.C., 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. - Publisher.
650		0	_aGlobal Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
650		0	_aInternational finance.
650		0	_aFinancial crises _zUnited States _xHistory _y21st century.
856			_uhttp://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=024559654&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA _zInhaltsverzeichnis
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