Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World Audiobook (Free)

From your #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Big Short, Liar’s Poker and The Blind Side!

The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled over the planet between 2002 and 2008 was greater than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they cannot normally afford to indulge.

The Greeks wished to turn their country right into a piñata filled with cash and invite as much citizens as you can to have a whack at it. The about Boomerang: Travels in the New UNDER-DEVELOPED Germans wished to be a lot more German; the Irish wanted to quit being Irish.

The trademark of Michael Lewis’s bestsellers is to tell a significant and complex story through characters so outsized and outrageously weird that you’d think they need to be invented. (You’d end up being incorrect.) In Boomerang, we match a brilliant monk who has figured out how to game Greek capitalism to save lots of his declining monastery; a cod fisherman who, with three days’ training, becomes a currency investor for an Icelandic bank; and an Irish real estate developer therefore outraged from the collapse of his business that he drives in the united states to strike the Irish Parliament along with his earth-moving equipment.

Lewis’s investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is indeed brilliantly, unfortunately hilarious it leads the American listener to an appropriate complacency: Oh, those foolish foreigners. However when Lewis becomes a merciless attention on California and Washington DC, we find that this narrative can be a capture baited with laughter, and we understand the reckoning that awaits the greatest and greediest of debtor countries.

“No one writes with more narrative panache about money and financing than Lewis.”

-Michiko Kakutani, NY Times