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Robert Frank, The High-Beta Rich: How the Manic Wealthy Will Take Us to the Next Boom, Bubble, and Bust, Crown Business, November 2011: How one couple frittered away a fortune trying to build Americas biggest house 90,000 square feet with 23 full bathrooms, a 6,000 square foot master suite with a bed on a rotating platformonly to be forced to put it on the market because we really need the money.
Michael Lewis, Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, W.W. Norton Company, October 2011: a guided tour through some of the disparate places hard hit by the fiscal tsunami of 2008: Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Germany and California, tracing how very different people for very different reasons gorged on the cheap credit available...
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