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Michael Lewis 出版社: W. W. Norton & Company 副标题: Travels in the New Third World 出版年: 2011-10-3 页数: 224 定价: USD 25.95 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780393081817
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...
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.
The interesting thing, said the German financier...is the glass room at the top (of the Commerzbank HQ building), from which one looks down over Frankfurt.It is a men's toilet. Commerzbank executives had taken him there to show him how, in full view of the world below, he could shit on Deutsche Bank. (查看原文)
Other countries used foreign money to fuel various forms of insanity. The Germans, through their bankers, used their own money to enable foreigners to behave insanely. (查看原文)
Just finished reading Michael Lewis’s Boomerang, a book about the aftermath of the economic crysis based on the author’s trips to Iceland, Greek, Ireland, Germany and… California. Just like many of Michael’s books before this one, it’s a very interesti...
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The interesting thing, said the German financier...is the glass room at the top (of the Commerzbank HQ building), from which one looks down over Frankfurt.It is a men's toilet. Commerzbank executives had taken him there to show him how, in full view of the world below, he could shit on Deutsche Bank.
2017-02-16 13:131人喜欢
The interesting thing, said the German financier...is the glass room at the top (of the Commerzbank HQ building), from which one looks down over Frankfurt.It is a men's toilet. Commerzbank executives had taken him there to show him how, in full view of the world below, he could shit on Deutsche Bank.引自 IV. The Secret Lives of Germans
Other countries used foreign money to fuel various forms of insanity. The Germans, through their bankers, used their own money to enable foreigners to behave insanely.
2012-11-12 00:381人喜欢
Other countries used foreign money to fuel various forms of insanity. The Germans, through their bankers, used their own money to enable foreigners to behave insanely.引自第145页
Indeed, one view of the European debt crisis--the Greek street view--is that it is an elaborate attempt by the German government on behalf its banks to get their money back without calling attention to what they are up to. The German government gives money to the European Union rescue fund so that it can give money to the Irish government so that the Irish government can give money to Irish ban...
2017-02-16 13:05
Indeed, one view of the European debt crisis--the Greek street view--is that it is an elaborate attempt by the German government on behalf its banks to get their money back without calling attention to what they are up to. The German government gives money to the European Union rescue fund so that it can give money to the Irish government so that the Irish government can give money to Irish banks, so the Irish banks can repay their loans to the German banks. "They are playing billiards, " says Enderlein. "The easier way to do it would be to give German money to the German banks and let the Irish banks fail." Why they don't simply do this is a question worth trying to answer. 引自 IV. The Secret Lives of Germans
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.
2017-02-16 12:42
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. 引自 IV. The Secret Lives of Germans
Other countries used foreign money to fuel various forms of insanity. The Germans, through their bankers, used their own money to enable foreigners to behave insanely.
2012-11-12 00:381人喜欢
Other countries used foreign money to fuel various forms of insanity. The Germans, through their bankers, used their own money to enable foreigners to behave insanely.引自第145页
The interesting thing, said the German financier...is the glass room at the top (of the Commerzbank HQ building), from which one looks down over Frankfurt.It is a men's toilet. Commerzbank executives had taken him there to show him how, in full view of the world below, he could shit on Deutsche Bank.
2017-02-16 13:131人喜欢
The interesting thing, said the German financier...is the glass room at the top (of the Commerzbank HQ building), from which one looks down over Frankfurt.It is a men's toilet. Commerzbank executives had taken him there to show him how, in full view of the world below, he could shit on Deutsche Bank.引自 IV. The Secret Lives of Germans
Indeed, one view of the European debt crisis--the Greek street view--is that it is an elaborate attempt by the German government on behalf its banks to get their money back without calling attention to what they are up to. The German government gives money to the European Union rescue fund so that it can give money to the Irish government so that the Irish government can give money to Irish ban...
2017-02-16 13:05
Indeed, one view of the European debt crisis--the Greek street view--is that it is an elaborate attempt by the German government on behalf its banks to get their money back without calling attention to what they are up to. The German government gives money to the European Union rescue fund so that it can give money to the Irish government so that the Irish government can give money to Irish banks, so the Irish banks can repay their loans to the German banks. "They are playing billiards, " says Enderlein. "The easier way to do it would be to give German money to the German banks and let the Irish banks fail." Why they don't simply do this is a question worth trying to answer. 引自 IV. The Secret Lives of Germans
The interesting thing, said the German financier...is the glass room at the top (of the Commerzbank HQ building), from which one looks down over Frankfurt.It is a men's toilet. Commerzbank executives had taken him there to show him how, in full view of the world below, he could shit on Deutsche Bank.
2017-02-16 13:131人喜欢
The interesting thing, said the German financier...is the glass room at the top (of the Commerzbank HQ building), from which one looks down over Frankfurt.It is a men's toilet. Commerzbank executives had taken him there to show him how, in full view of the world below, he could shit on Deutsche Bank.引自 IV. The Secret Lives of Germans
Indeed, one view of the European debt crisis--the Greek street view--is that it is an elaborate attempt by the German government on behalf its banks to get their money back without calling attention to what they are up to. The German government gives money to the European Union rescue fund so that it can give money to the Irish government so that the Irish government can give money to Irish ban...
2017-02-16 13:05
Indeed, one view of the European debt crisis--the Greek street view--is that it is an elaborate attempt by the German government on behalf its banks to get their money back without calling attention to what they are up to. The German government gives money to the European Union rescue fund so that it can give money to the Irish government so that the Irish government can give money to Irish banks, so the Irish banks can repay their loans to the German banks. "They are playing billiards, " says Enderlein. "The easier way to do it would be to give German money to the German banks and let the Irish banks fail." Why they don't simply do this is a question worth trying to answer. 引自 IV. The Secret Lives of Germans
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.
2017-02-16 12:42
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. 引自 IV. The Secret Lives of Germans
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0 有用 彳亍 2013-03-13
13W，本来是可以给4颗星的，但因为是Michael Lewis写的，让我大失所望，所以扣一颗星。。。
0 有用 嘤嘤嘤格丽 2013-03-25
国家的性格导致不同的行为和结果很有趣
0 有用 [已注销] 2012-08-05
还是Michael Lewis
1 有用 梅文女王殿下 2011-11-12
2011.11.9 不能说多么有insight, 但是风趣的anecdote，行云流水page turner, 依然是Lewis卖座的关键。
0 有用 immtalmonkey 2013-02-09
as funny as his other works. Europeans must be bloody angry about his jokes though
0 有用 zoLdeX 2020-02-22
看完The big short电影种草的这本，里面的例子很有启示性
0 有用 卜栗PP 2020-02-18
之前不知道冰岛跟爱尔兰这么疯狂，以及德国在当中作为creditor的角色，加州的故事也很有意思，特别好奇现在这些地方都怎么样了
0 有用 灵石与夫铭 2019-12-22
对几个欧洲国家在07金融危机前后的经济基本情况的简单介绍，可以增加一些全球视野，不属于经济实践或者金融分析类作品
0 有用 猪头猪脑 2019-10-30
虽然写的都是严肃话题，但是用八卦新闻的春秋笔法，听起来轻松愉快，我发现作者写自己不那么熟悉又不是完全陌生的东西的时候特别容易刻板印象反而故事性强一点。另感觉Lewis的书还是有点背景知识的听得比较懂😅😅😅以为这个是全集最后一本了，刷完发现还有一本，毕竟写了三十几年，作品真多啊！
0 有用 MV466AG 2019-03-11
Iceland is not a country but a hedge fund loll