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Iceland is a hedge fund able to issue its own currency.

It's a disaster waiting to happen, as its Nordic cousins well know....

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Sat May 17th, 2008 at 04:04:17 AM EST
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I understand that there may be political/diplomatic issues at work, but if they know it's a disaster waiting to happen (as I think many of us surmise it is) why did the Nordic central banks get involved in propping it up at this point in time?
by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Sat May 17th, 2008 at 04:40:24 AM EST
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If they hadn't it wouldn't have been a disaster waiting to happen any more. The disaster would be now.
by Trond Ove on Sat May 17th, 2008 at 07:42:27 AM EST
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And here I thought that "the privatization of profits and the socialization of risk" was primarily Anglo-American in nature. Silly me. It appears to be metastasizing.

"A man can steal more money with a briefcase than a man can steal with a gun," as Don Henley informed us.  The magnitude increases exponentially if the "man" runs a national bank. Is there any bound on this increase? Perhaps the world money supply?

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sat May 17th, 2008 at 02:21:23 PM EST
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