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Iceland’s banking collapse is the biggest, relative to the size of an economy, that any country has ever suffered

ATOP a hill near Reykjavik’s old harbour is a bronze statue of Ingolfur Arnarson, the first Nordic settler of inhospitable Iceland. It overlooks a bunker-like building: the central bank, headed by David Oddsson, a man who more than 1,100 years later has shown similar survival skills. Before chairing the central bank’s board of governors, Mr Oddsson was prime minister for more than 13 years, a record, during which time Iceland became one of the richest countries in the world. For years he was Iceland’s most popular politician, privatising most of the banking system with a Thatcherite zeal and floating the currency, the krona.

http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12762027

 


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Haraldur Haraldsson
Haraldur Haraldsson

Höfundur er Markaðsfræðingur/ Sálfræði frá Middle Tennessee State Univeristy (mtsu.edu).

Fæddur í Reykjavík 1971 og ólst upp í Garðabæ. Giftur Bergdísi Eysteinsdóttur sérkennslukennara. Eigum eina dóttur, Birtu Björk Haraldsdóttur fædd 2001.

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