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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 Hitchcock 2013-01-04
终于把你给搞定了···
1 有用 c h l 2013-03-21
我觉得他就是趁着酒店打折的时候去欧洲旅了个游，顺大便写了这本闲扯淡的书赚几个零花钱。。。此书的核心内容显然是德意志人民的屎尿屁情结，以及施瓦辛格虽然长得跟克林顿一模一样、但却是个木有桃色新闻的正经人。。。个人认为冰岛的部分最好笑
0 有用 Liz 2012-08-10
三行一个笑话
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。
1 有用 缝内裤的Kurt 2015-11-10
没有德国，欧盟乙烷；有了德国，欧盟迟早还是药丸。
0 有用 芦涛 2021-03-29
喜欢这种游记，看世界不一样的角度
0 有用 Dawzaw 2021-02-04
You’d be surprised that things are still somewhat the same in the US 10 years later.
0 有用 mai 2020-12-04
You can tell a lot about a country by observing how much better they treat themselves than foreigners at the point of entry
0 有用 maxleaf 2020-07-08
债务危机背景下几个欧洲国家的幽默讽刺画，喜欢这种sardonic的写法
0 有用 线代老师毕加索 2020-05-15
还是可以的，每个章节的国家的故事不一样，但是都围绕一个主题