Elephant Rescue

In 2001 Greece saw its application for membership into the Eurozone accepted and the country sat down to the greatest free lunch in economic history. However the coming years of global economic prosperity would lead to unrestrained spending cheap borrowing and a failure to implement financial reform leaving the country massively exposed to a financial crisis—which duly struck. In Bust Greece the Euro and the Sovereign Debt Crisis Bloomberg columnist Matthew Lynn explores Greeces spectacular rise and fall from grace and the global repercussions of its financial disaster. Page by page he provides a thrilling account of the Greek financial crisis drawing out its origins how it escalated and its implications for a fragile global economy. Along the way Lynn looks at how the Greek contagion has spread like wildfire throughout Europe and explores how government ineptitude as well as financial speculators compounded the problem. Blending financial history politics and current affairs Lynn skillfully tells the story of how one nation rode the wave of economic prosperity and brought a continent a currency and potentially the global financial system to its knees. Lively engaging and thought provoking Bust reminds us just how interconnected the world really is.