Preface: The biggest short -- Wall Street on the tundra -- And they invented math -- Ireland's original sin -- The secret lives of Germans -- Too fat to fly.
Summary
Presents the author's darkly humorous investigation of the effects of the 2008 financial bubble on other countries before taking aim at greedy debtors in California and Washington, D.C.
SRP 2012 REVIEW: The author states that the conservatives in the Republican Party have damaged all branches of the federal government in the last three decades.