Friday, October 10, 2008

Iceland suspends stock trading, creates new bank: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Iceland suspends stock trading, creates new bank: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance:
"Iceland suspended trading on its stock exchange for two days and took control of the country's largest bank -- the third to be placed under its protective umbrella -- on Thursday as it grappled with a banking crisis that is threatening to engulf the entire country"
A few days ago a friend emailed and asked about class and what we were covering about the collapsing market. He then suggested I really should be teaching how to live off the land (implying a total collapse of the financial infrastructure).

Apparently he gave the same advice in Iceland where the prime minister said essentially the same thing!

From Bloomberg: Iceland Premier Tells Nation to Go Fishing After Banks Implode
``We are too small a country to sustain such a big banking system,'' he said in an interview. ``We have fantastic resources and an abundance of green energy and we will now utilize that and the other resources we have, the ocean and human capital

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