It's the Economy, Dummkopf! | Business | Vanity Fair

It's the Economy, Dummkopf! | Business | Vanity Fair: "With Greece and Ireland in economic shreds, while Portugal, Spain, and perhaps even Italy head south, only one nation can save Europe from financial Armageddon: a highly reluctant Germany. The ironies—like the fact that bankers from Düsseldorf were the ultimate patsies in Wall Street’s con game—pile up quickly as Michael Lewis investigates German attitudes toward money, excrement, and the country’s Nazi past, all of which help explain its peculiar new status."

The Beginning Of The Endgame

The Beginning Of The Endgame: "The Big Bang Moment
Bang, Indeed!
“It’s the Economy, Dummkopf!”
The Long and Winding Road to Crisis
Are We Already in Recession?
So What Can We Do?
Home and then Ireland, London, and Geneva
I came away from Maine, and meeting with some of the most astute economists in the world, with a series of impressions that will be the core of this week’s letter."