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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 not normally afford to indulge. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a piñata 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.…
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Editions
15 editions · 5 languages- Audiobook · English · 2014Simon & Schuster Audio · 9781442370296
- Hardcover · English · 2011W.W. Norton · 224 pages · 9780393081817
- Hardcover · English · 2011Allen Lane · 213 pages · 9781846144844
- Audiobook · English · 2011Simon & Schuster Audio · 6 pages · 9781442341258
- Other · English · 2012WW Norton & Co · 9780393344486
- Other · English · 2012Penguin · 9780241955024
New York Times bestsellerGlobal Financial Crisis, 2008-2009Financial crisesInternational financeHistoryEconomic conditionsForeign economic relationsInternational economic relations
