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As Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy and he is us."
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... read more
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- Father Ephraim: Add a description of this character.
- Peter Doukas
- Morgan Kelly
- Brian Lenihan
- Alan Dundes
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Dr. Peter Whybrow
- David McWilliams
- Joe McNamara
- Chuck Reed
- Philip Ingram
- Joan Burton
- Bob Aliber
- Arnold
- David Oddsson
- George Papandreou
- Cesar
- Father Arsenios
- Dirk Röthig
- Gary Keogh
- Klaus-Peter Müller
- Jörg Asmussen
- Colm McCarthy
- Vatopaidi
- Theo Phanos
- Bertie Ahern
- David Crane
- Henrik Enderlein
- Dermot Gleeson
- Paige Meyer
- Eugene Sheehy
- Father Matthew
- Bernard Madoff
- Nicholas Dunbar
- Magnus Olafsson
- Charlotte
- Kyle Bass
- Mark Paul
- Steve Kroft
- George Papaconstantinou
- Meredith Whitney
- Björk
- Stefan Alfsson
- Achill
- Tony Shearer
- Ian McRory
- Phil Batchelor
- Geir Haarde
- Greeks
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“Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress.”
Isocrates
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“Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress.”
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In Greece the banks didn’t sink the country. The country sank the banks.
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It’s a problem of people taking what they can, just because they can, without regard to the larger social consequences.
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Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward.
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Leverage buys you a glimpse of a prosperity you haven’t really earned.
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One of the hidden causes of the current global financial crisis is that the people who saw it coming had more to gain from it by taking short positions than they did by trying to publicize the problem.
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“There is an iron law of house prices,” he wrote. “The more house prices rise relative to income and rents, the more they will subsequently fall.”
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The average government job pays almost three times the average private-sector job.
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Germans longed to be near the shit, but not in it. This, as it turns out, is an excellent description of their role in the current financial crisis.
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The smart person accepts. The idiot insists. He got it, he says, on one of his business trips to the Ministry of Tourism. “This is the secret of success for anywhere in the world, not just the monastery,” he says, and then goes on to describe pretty much word for word the first rule of improvisational comedy, or for that matter any successful collaborative enterprise. Take whatever is thrown at you and build upon it. “Yes . . . and” rather than “No . . . but.”
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Setting & Locations edit
Global Financial Crisis
- Iceland: Due to increased inflation in stock prices & real estate, they experienced a severe economic downtown in October 2008.
- Ireland
- Greece
- Germany
- California
- Wall Street
- Dublin
- London
- United States
- Europe
- San Jose
- America
- Vallejo
- Athens
- Berlin
- New York
- Kaupthing
- Frankfurt
- Spain
- Düsseldorf
Organizations edit
- International Monetary Fund: A global organization aiming to promote positive international economic stability.
First Sentence edit
Just after October 6, 2008, when Iceland effectively went bust, I spoke to a man at the International Monetary Fund who had been flown in to Reykjavik to determine if money might responsibly be lent to such a spectacularly bankrupt nation.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 12 of 16 in New York Times Bestsellers - Hardcover Nonfiction (Current). (authoritative list)
This is book 18 of 20 in New York Times Bestsellers - Paperback Nonfiction (Current). (authoritative list)
This book is in Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2011. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Michael Lewis (Author)
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Publication Date: 2011
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Page Count: 224
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Publication Date: 2011
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Page Count: 224
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- Dewey: 330.90511
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- Michael Lewis Interview - October 3, 2011: Talks a bit about Moneyball in the beginning but then talks about Boomerang.
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