The 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.
Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers.
The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata 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. Michael 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.
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