April 25, 2012

Iceland Can Teach Europe About Recovery

Ann Pettifor, Current Account

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Let’s confess, it felt good to see a Prime Minister criminally charged for the financial mismanagement of his country, as happened to Iceland’s Geir Haarde. But it also seems fair that he was convicted only of negligence.

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