Through elaborate twists and turns Catharine Zeta-Jones had to risk her life in a break in to get her hands on the jewels she coveted in Entrapment. But if you happen to own or control a business which has been bankrupted in Iceland in the last couple of years, the way back to 2007 is made [...]

The party which got Icelandic society into this mess could just hold the keys to make things right. It is quite a bit strange to hear people say that they would still vote for the Independence Party today, even after its Icarian flight of the past two decades and its nepotistic distribution of the wealth of [...]

“Those who lack the skill and talent to get the ball, go for the man” This quote from an online forum sums up the political debate currently underway in Iceland. People without the required skills and talent to handle the issues at hand compensate by attempting to take the players who do out of the game. In [...]

The thirty year old male raged about Johanna Sigurdardottir and called her the “worst Prime Minister Iceland has ever had”. And this is someone who is to the left politically. Her shortcomings according to this disgruntled voter was that she is never seen or heard. In a time of great peril to the nation she doesn’t “lead” [...]

Fridrik Jonsson shows two pictures on his blog today that challenge the wisdom of applying economic theories to large economies and small as if there were no difference. The first one shows inflation from January 2001 – October 2009. The second one shows the development of CB interest rates in the same period. Notice a trend? Those of [...]

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The case of Baldur Gudlaugsson, the secretary of the Ministry of Education who quit yesterday because of an investigation by the Special Prosecutor, is intriguing to say the least. Baldur is being investigated for selling his shares in Landsbankinn, after attending a meeting late in the summer of 2008 with Alistair Darling, the British Chanchellor of the [...]

A new bill has been proposed, which is historical as it appears to be the first one which is supposed to counter the type of governance practised by David Oddson and his Independence Party. Ragna Arnadottir, Minister of Justice and Human Rights is proposing a law on the appointment of district and supreme court justices. They are appointed [...]

Godwin’s Law: Godwin’s Law (also known as Godwin’s Rule of Nazi Analogies) is a humorous observation made by Mike Godwin in 1990 which has become an Internet adage. It states: “As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches. The term Godwin’s law can also refer to the [...]

Open office spaces used to be all the rage in the last few years but now the editor in chief’s at Morgunbladid are reversing the trend. Whereas Olafur Stephensen and his predecessor Styrmir Gunnarsson did not have their own private office, carpenters have been hard at work building a “cage” for the new editors. What was that [...]