From the 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Big Short, Liars Poker and The Blind Side!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. 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. The trademark of Michael Lewiss bestsellers is to tell an important and complex story through characters so outsized and outrageously weird that youd think they have to be invented. Youd be wrong.
