Iceland: "Wall Street on the Tundra" by Michael Lewis

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Wall Street on the Tundra
by Michael Lewis (http://www.vanityfair.com/search/query?query=Michael%20Lewis&queryType=nonparsed&sort=score+desc&yrsearch_submit.x=0&yrsearch_submit.y=0&yrsearch_submit=submit) April 2009

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/04/iceland200904?printable=true&currentPage=all

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Wall Street on the Tundra
by Michael Lewis (http://www.vanityfair.com/search/query?query=Michael%20Lewis&queryType=nonparsed&sort=score+desc&yrsearch_submit.x=0&yrsearch_submit.y=0&yrsearch_submit=submit) April 2009

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/04/iceland200904?printable=true&currentPage=all
this article is great fun to read.

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this article is great fun to read.

This article has to be the funniest description of a real catastrophe I've ever read...:)

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Is Iceland an peculiar oddity, an anomaly, or a true canary in the debt
mine?

Horses gone (bank insiders have saved their capital), now time to shut barn door?

Michael Lewis is a great writer, or investigating journalist?


Iceland to tighten capital controls to boost crown
Tue Mar 31, 2009

http://www.reuters.com/article/usDollarRpt/idUSLV10096320090331

"REYKJAVIK, March 31 (Reuters) - Iceland's interim government on Tuesday
tabled new rules to force the island's exporters to repatriate foreign
currency in a move to support the crown.
. . . "