It’s official – Iceland is emerging from recession, with growth up in the last quarter, and inflation and interest rates down. What lessons can we learn from our North Atlantic neighbours, and can ...
STOCKHOLM/REYKJAVIK – For Iceland, there was a sense of deja vu when Cyprus's finance minister said capital controls would probably last "a matter of weeks". Five years after a banking meltdown, the ...
Still think the difference between Iceland and Ireland is one letter and six months? Anyone amused by Iceland’s recent troubles had better realize the joke is on them. In 2008, when its top three ...
Early in 2008, Anne Sibert and I were asked by the Icelandic bank Landsbanki (now in receivership) to write a paper on the causes of the financial problems faced by Iceland and its banks, and on the ...
IRELAND COULD learn valuable lessons from Iceland’s response to its banking collapse, according to a report published yesterday by the Dáil Committee of Public Accounts (PAC). Its chairman Fine Gael ...