The prophet whose message drove the Icelandic economy into the ground, Milton Friedman on Icelandic State TV in 1984.  You can watch the video here on DailyMotion

Watch Mar Masson, Glitnir’s PR rep who is still in that position twist his tongue during an interview with the Norwegian State Television on October 7, 2008. Asked a reasonable question about his employers that he isn’t used to have to deal with from Icelandic reporters, Mar stops the interview and explains to the reporter [...]

Yes, the Icelandic banks have left a lot of damage. But Gordon Brown should not use them to divert from his own problems. Owned by Icelandic bank Kaupthing its UK operation of Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander operated as a British bank, supposed to be supervised by the UK Financial Supervisory Authority. The UK government has [...]

You would think that Icelandic MP’s would have had the guts to stand up to the architects of the ruin in this manner now that this country is in a worse shape than the UK. But they won’t. Instead, foreign minister Ossur Skarphedinsson has decided to hand Valgerdur Sverrisdottir a position as a leader of [...]

Hard times have hit Iceland, as they did in 1875. And as they did in 1875, Icelanders are looking to Manitoba for a better life. Recently, about 500 people attended a seminar in Reykjavik, put on by the Icelandic Directorate of Labour and the Canadian Embassy. The topic was on a recent agreement regarding work [...]

Two men were arrested yesterday at the broker-firm Virding (meaning Respect, no less) on suspicion of massive financial crimes and charges of money-laundering. One of them is the son of the CEO of the Icelandic Stock Exchange. Now the CEO is undoubtedly an honest man and no-one should be judged on the actions of their [...]