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Boomerang por M. Lewis
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Boomerang (edición 2012)

por M. Lewis (Autor)

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As Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy and he is us." In this book the author offers a scathing assessment of fiscal blunders in foreign lands, and details how economic repercussions are sure to be felt on American soil. Financial bubbles grew and burst, not only in the U.S. but in countries as diverse as Iceland, Germany, and Greece. Mixing humor with prescient insight, he depicts a precarious situation that demands attention. 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. This investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so 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, D.C., 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. - Publisher.… (más)
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Financial crisis that start with one country can have a contagion effect that creates a ripple and causes other countries have a financial crisis as well. The financial crisis may have started in the U.S., but as Michael Lewis shows in this book is that, that every country that experiences a financial crisis has to blame internal problems as well. The book follows the aftermath of the U.S. 2008 financial crisis and tries to understand how it was started in other countries.
In Iceland, bankers borrowed from one another at inflated prices and relent it to others to purchase foreign assets. In Greece, everyone from the public who is supposed to pay taxes and government who is supposed to collect taxes is part of a systems that helps each person not pay any tax. In Ireland bankers kept on lending money to property developers that build more homes than was needed with little expectation that anyone would live in them. In Germany, the people trust in rules and regulation allowed them to think that the Greek's would play by the rules of being in the Euro and the strategies the U.S. banks had were sanctioned by the Fed or SEC with the result of buying a lot of subprime mortgages that were unexpectedly poor quality and became the only country able to pay for the debt of the countries in the Euro. In California, or most likely in the whole U.S., people vote for those that seek to rectify the problems and help the people but with a system that insures any fix is not given its due which in tern creates dissatisfaction with the public. It seems that the culture of each region is unique and had an impact as to how financial institutions and problems developed.
This was an easy read. The stories provided gave credibility to the situation in the respective country. The book did a good job with explaining financial corruption in each country presented, but it does seem to be more superficial. Superficial because the stories and explanations seem to only explain the surface of the situation. The best parts have been when the undercurrents of the decisions were expressed and the book would have been better should more depth was given to each country. Also, the countries presented were only in the Europe and the U.S., it would have been interesting to see the financial experience of other countries. ( )
  Eugene_Kernes | Jun 4, 2024 |
3.5 stars. Interesting & informative, even to a politics & economics non-lover. Sometimes even amusing, in a somewhat scarey & depressing way. ( )
  Abcdarian | May 18, 2024 |
Třetí ze tří Lewisů, třetí ze tří zklamání. Při četbě první knihy jsem měl očekávání hodně vysoko a bohužel nedošlo na jejich naplnění. Jako druhý jsem četl Lewisův klasický knižní debut a tak nějak jsem myslel, že když nic, alespoň ten bude vysvětlovat autorovu popularitu, jenže dopadlo tak nějak napůl. Bumerang jsem přečetl víceméně ze setrvačnosti, abych si udělal místo na nočním stolku, a nic většího než poklidně strávených pár hodin jsem od něj nečekal. Bohužel nesplnil ani to.

Bumerang prý vznikl z přebytků, které Lewisovi zbyly po napsání předchozí knihy. Jde tedy v podstatě o vydání "B-side" skladeb, které se nevešly na poslední velké album, jimž bylo Big Short. Tak jako "B-side" skladby by tedy i Bumerang měl být ponechán Lewisovým fanouškům, neboť těm možná nebude vadit, že autor není zrovna ve vrcholné formě. V případě Bumerangu je totiž faktický základ hodně skromný, větší část knihy Lewis glosuje a snaží se "dělat humor", který mi již potřetí v řadě nesedl.

Dozvíme se tedy, že Islanďané jsou přihlouplí šašci, kteří se svou neznalostí ztratili ve světě velkých financí, Řekové jsou lenoši, kteří by si nejraději žili za cizí peníze a Němci se rádi nimrají ve sračkách. V kapitole o Irech se nedozvíme celkem nic a celou kapitolu o Spojených státech lze shrnout do věty: dluh se stále více přesouvá z federální úrovně na úroveň měst. Naprostou většinu řecké kapitoly tvoří příběh "zločinných mnichů", který bohužel postrádá pointu, v Německu zase Lewis marně pátral po zápasu v bahně, aby oslím můstkem spojil německou zálibu ve špíně s jejích zvykem nakupovat (bez)cenné papíry, kterých by se nikdo jiný nedotkl. V Irsku Lewis s překvapením zjistil, že hoteliér, jenž se zadlužil ve snaze postavit hotel uprostřed nicoty, nemá zrovna náladu na povídání, a američtí hasiči se zabývají požáry, zatímco hasit potřebuje spíše rozpočet jejich města.

Bohužel, takhle fakt ne. Poslední Lewis na dlouhou dobu. ( )
  zajus | Jul 13, 2023 |
Oversimplified and dumbed down approach to a serious problem. I am a Michael Lewis fan, but this was a big step down from his other books I have read. ( )
  Michael_Lilly | Jan 10, 2023 |

Michael Lewis hits Iceland, Ireland, Greece, Germany, and finally the good old USA to put a face and story to our global financial crisis. I was hoping for some magical insight or answer to the mess. But ya know, the financial mess with financial institutions "too big to fail" is probably "too big to understand".

It's a mostly sad book. The author does have a talent for writing stories and getting people to open up to him.

The book ends oddly. No, it just vanishes without really any closure.

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  wellington299 | Feb 19, 2022 |
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As Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy and he is us." In this book the author offers a scathing assessment of fiscal blunders in foreign lands, and details how economic repercussions are sure to be felt on American soil. Financial bubbles grew and burst, not only in the U.S. but in countries as diverse as Iceland, Germany, and Greece. Mixing humor with prescient insight, he depicts a precarious situation that demands attention. 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. This investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so 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, D.C., 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. - Publisher.

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