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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 piñata 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.

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Fascinating...the book could not be more timely...a sharp-edged narrative that leaves readers with a visceral understanding of the fiscal recklessness that lies behind today's headlines (Michiko Kakutani New York Times)

Michael Lewis's bravura journey through Europe's economic underbelly brilliantly charts the consequences of a world plagued by debt...highly enjoyable...nicely politically incorrect, often very funny, and shot through with genuine insight (Robert Harris Sunday Times)

Brilliant ... he has a novelist's gift (Spectator, Books of the Year)

Lewis' investigation of bubbles across Europe is brilliantly, sadly hiliarious (GQ magazine)

He writes with the wit and observational eye of a travel writer (Richard Fitzpatrick Irish Examiner)

He writes quite brilliantly and understands the complex financial matters whereof he speaks. As polemical prose goes, it is hard to beat (Howard Davies Management Today)

Lewis is the finest storyteller of our generation (Malcolm Gladwell)

He is so good everyone else may as well pack up (Evening Standard)

Michael Lewis meets some extraordinary characters in his excursion through the barely controlled madness that is modern finance ... lucid, entertaining (Tony Barber Financial Times)

About the Author

Michael Lewis was born in New Orleans and educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics. He has written several books including the New York Times bestsellers Liar's Poker, widely considered the book that defined Wall Street during the 1980s, and The Big Short, 'probably the single best piece of financial journalism ever written' (Reuters). Lewis is contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and also writes for Vanity Fair and Portfolio Magazine.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Allen Lane; 1st edition (10 October 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 216 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1846144841
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1846144844
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.2 x 2.5 x 24 cm
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Michael Lewis, the best-selling author of The Undoing Project, Liar's Poker, Flash Boys, Moneyball, The Blind Side, Home Game and The Big Short, among other works, lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Tabitha Soren, and their three children.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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Excellent read although the content is frightening in many respects primarily because how alleged senior economists / bankers etc made and are still making relatively straight forward mistakes. Incredible that no significant steps have been put in place to avoid similar situations arising again. Can't get between bankers and easy money. Greed !. Have to feel sorry for the poor Swedish guy who has done a bit of 'time' for his involvemen.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable read
Reviewed in Australia on 8 March 2016
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Michael Lewis travels to far flung regions of the world to uncover the global impact of the collapse of the subprime mortgage market in the USA.

For a potentially technical subject matter, the author excels to make the book interesting as well as readable for the layman without any background in finance.
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Drgraham
5.0 out of 5 stars Insight
Reviewed in Australia on 16 March 2018
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The take home message of this book written over six years ago is the the recession of 2008 was more a product of human frailty, greed and selective ignorance that haven't changed a great deal.
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Paola
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read. Entertaining and informative
Reviewed in Australia on 16 July 2015
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I want to read more of his books. If this book was a movie, it will be titled 'a prequel'.
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Abe Lincoln
5.0 out of 5 stars great read
Reviewed in Australia on 1 May 2014
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Fantastic insights into culture and money
Good read for anyone interested in people and world events
I couldn't put the book down
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will carpenter
4.0 out of 5 stars You can't book this tour on line
Reviewed in Australia on 9 July 2014
Brilliant concept - visiting the leaders of those countries that have gone from boom to bust in less than five years and examining the cultural differences between them. Includes Iceland, Ireland, Greece and the USA. Fascinating psychological drivers especially in Iceland.
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Vivek Ananth
5.0 out of 5 stars Need to read this
Reviewed in India on 19 April 2016
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If you want to know what happened after the crisis read this book. We only hear about governments and what they did. This is about the people.
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Steve Vasseur
5.0 out of 5 stars A walk through the park of financial disarray.
Reviewed in Canada on 24 August 2013
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Short and to the point, one does not have to be an expert in finance to understand the gist of global banking and the corrupt political systems which fuel them. Wall Street financiers are still the undisputed thieves of the world and remain unpunished for their corruption but not that is me giving facts on prior research, either way, he hit the nail on the head.
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Sebastien Broquet
5.0 out of 5 stars Un bon moment
Reviewed in France on 5 October 2014
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Une approche drôle et facile à lire de problèmes qui le sont beaucoup moins
Les dernières crises passées au crible et au vitriol
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luca
4.0 out of 5 stars interessante punto di vista
Reviewed in Italy on 26 August 2013
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Una panoramica sull'impatto che l'introduzione dell'euro ha avuto in alcune nazioni europee. In particolare l'oggetto è l'espansione del debito pubblico/privato.
L'approccio è più orientato agli aspetti culturali che a quelli strettamente finanziari.
Lettura è scorrevole e intrigante, i punti di vista interessanti.
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Neville Samuels
5.0 out of 5 stars A highly entertaining and mind-opening world tour
Reviewed in the United States on 17 October 2011
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The bit-part characters behind the world's current, and still evolving, financial debacles seem so absurd that you would think this book, 'Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour,' was a novel; a humor piece, not a true story; not really non-fiction.

But it's all real. Very.

Author, Michael Lewis, visits Iceland, Greece, Ireland, Germany and California. Parts of the world that have suffered badly from the financial collapse that became a reality since 2007.

He interviews financial industry analysts, politicians, including a former Irish prime minister. And colorful individuals; world citizens, who've personally suffered financial ruin, like a bankrupted property developer, a retired grandfather whose claim to fame was throwing two rotten eggs at the chairman of an Irish bank.

Somehow, Lewis manages to keep up with former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as they ride bikes, dangerously, around the streets and boardwalks in Santa Monica. It's an interesting interview, where Schwarzenegger is honest about the challenges he faced running the most populous state in the U.S.

Lewis' interviews are more like conversations with the players, than just questions and answers. And it's not just about the people, Lewis also paints a colorful, or rather grey, picture of the places he visits. In Ireland, "It's always either raining or about to rain." And in Iceland, the days are so short, "the sun sets with enthusiasm at 3:44 P.M."

Appropriately, Lewis finishes his book with a conversation with a California fire fighter who has to make do with cutbacks in pay, fire trucks and personnel. It proves that there have been real consequences to the instant gratification mania that snatched up the hearts and minds of bankers, politicians, property developers and home buyers.

'Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour' is a highly entertaining and mind-opening read.
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