Michael Lewis on <em>Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World</em>

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 3, 2011

Michael Lewis looks at how the tsunami of cheap credit across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering societies—from Iceland to Greece to Ireland—the chance to indulge and take risks. Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World investigates of bubbles abroad and here at home in California and Washington, DC.

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