I heard a good story this weekend. It was about my personal finances. The story told of how I’d been gambling around with money in the good times and lost it all in the economic collapse. Therefore I am supposed to be bitter and therefore I am supposed to be keeping this site going, going [...]

Did Iceland fly too close to the sun? We have rarely had a case when a nation so avidly adopted an economic model that was bound to fail. Iceland became the poster child for this economic crisis. Robert Wade in Challenge

  It would be a welcome change if our leaders could man up to rebuild with a long-term, outward focus. Where the well-being of all citizens on the planet is considered, instead of short-term profits and an anarchic idea of making Iceland into a financial center, i.e. what Kaupthing boss Sigurdur Einarsson was asked to [...]

As long as I’ve known about Iceland, I’ve known that it was a place I’d probably be at least sort of willing to go if someone else suggested going and then made all my travel arrangements and drove me to the airport. I’d also heard they have elves. A few weeks ago, a group of [...]

They should have suspected that the possibility might occur that they would win the required majority of votes in last weekend’s election.  So what are we waiting for?  Five days later and there is still no announcement of an agreement between the Social Democrats and the Left Greens. What is going on? They keep repeating [...]