Description Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers.
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 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.
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.
Description Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers
