{"product_id":"9780393343441","title":"Boomerang","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Lewis shows again why he is the leading journalist of his generation.”—Kyle Smith, \u003ci\u003eForbes\u003c\/i\u003e\r\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nIcelanders 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.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nMichael 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.\r\n","brand":"Michael Lewis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":54684637757664,"sku":"9780393343441","price":6.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0561\/3381\/2415\/files\/BNCImageAPI_5e08414c-9a17-4bf1-8aa0-05d8059adb80.jpg?v=1788538695","url":"https:\/\/yooneekbooks.ca\/products\/9780393343441","provider":"Yooneek Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}