by Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis has the gift of gab! His book on the financial crisis (the economic debacle that hit the United States and Europe, that almost brought the whole world down and of which we are not yet out of the woods), is so easy to read and so filled with wit that one forgets the horrific images of t...
At 48mins 31secs - ye geezer states that Iceland will drop the kroner in favour of the Euro - wrong - Iceland is not in the EU. It works through Norway and both have trade agreements with the EU. Neither are full members.Iceland now wants to be ((candidate list)no financial surprise) and Norway stro...
I thought this was an interesting book. Lewis travels to various places affected by the bank collapse of 2008. He visits Iceland, Greece, Ireland, Germany, and also covers the US, or at least, California. He has a theory that each culture does something different "in the dark" when they suddenly h...
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World gets 4 Stars but could have been much better. An offshoot of his The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, he gives us the financial shenanigans of the world during 2002-2008, the time of the financial crisis in the US. Not only the US went crazy with seem...
This is a great book for anyone who wants to understand what behaviors caused the debt crises in various nations but does not have a background in finance or economics. It's not a very technical book. It studies several countries or other places that were and still are key to the debt crises in Euro...
UPDATED - July 28, 2013 - at bottomChecking in with the whiz kids who predicted the Wall Street crash that he wrote about in The Big Short, his excellent look at the latest Wall Street meltdown, Michael Lewis finds that the next big bust will be on the nation-state scale. His construct for analyzing...
Who knew it could be so enjoyable reading about the financial crisis, explained with examples from several key areas of the world? Fascinating. Iceland, Greece, Ireland, USA -- these are some of the countries in what he calls the New Third World. We have been undone by our ancient lizard nature o...
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