BTW, is Gunnar Tomasson the same person that wrote this? And the dean of Engineering at Reykjavik? Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
As for Financial Engineering, that might be right up your street!
I think it does occasionally get above 10 degrees in Reykjavik.... "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky