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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World is a non-fiction book by Michael Lewis about macroeconomic consequences of cheap financing available during the 2000s. The book was released on October 3, 2011 by W. W. Norton & Company.
- Michael Lewis
- 2011
Oct 3, 2011 · In “Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World,” he trains his eyes on individuals in a number of countries, such as Iceland (where it all began), Greece, Ireland, and the United States, to illustrate the greater global economy and where finances have generally gone wrong.
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Sep 4, 2012 · The majority of this book is devoted to Lewis' travels in Iceland, Greece, Ireland and Germany, and to his discoveries during his travels. To get a flavor for the book and Lewis' writing style, here are some of Lewis' passages, in his own words:
- Michael Lewis
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"Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World" twirls through the financial circus of Europe and flies back in our faces like bat wings from hell. The book starts out with Kyle Bass, a Texas hedge fund manager who could have been one of the stars of "The Big Short" but wound up on the cutting room floor.
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- Michael Lewis
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Sep 28, 2011 · Bass's adult interest in the tiny country, however, had nothing to do with its geography and everything to do with its peculiar banking system. Michael Lewis travels there with that same focus, finding in the island nation's bizarre dysfunction a microcosm for the post-2008 financial world.
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Oct 3, 2011 · Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World. Michael Lewis. W. W. Norton & Company, Oct 3, 2011 - Business & Economics - 240 pages. “Lewis shows again why he is the leading journalist of his...
Combining his easy familiarity with finance and the talents of a travel writer, Mr. Lewis sets off in these pages to give the reader a guided tour through some of the disparate places hard hit by the fiscal tsunami of 2008, like Greece, Iceland and Ireland, tracing how very different people for very different reasons gorged on the cheap credit ...
- Michael Lewis
