→ September 3, 2010
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I have fallen ill lately, either some autumn flu or an allergy reaction due to Icelandic news. It seems like Bjorgolfur Thor and Jon Asgeir Johannesson are going to be the two people who hold the reins in Icelandic business once the dust has settled. Their creditors including Landsbankinn and Arion seem to be competing [...]
→ April 17, 2010
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Illugi Gunnarsson and Bjorgvni G. Sigurdsson resign as MP’s. Not because they have done something wrong but because they want an opportunity to clear their “good names”. That is also what Bjorn Ingi Hrafnsson said when he stepped down as editor of Pressan.is Now Thorgerdur Katrin Gunnarsdottir has also resigned…”temporarily”. The lessons learned for the [...]
→ April 13, 2010
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Everyone named in the Special Investigation Committee‘s report is asking everyone else to accept responsibility. But nobody has the guts to take the first step. Why the hesitance? It is quite understandable if you look at it from the viewpoint of someone who‘s wrangled their way to the top in Icelandic politics and banking. They [...]
→ September 25, 2009
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What are people like Bjarni Benediktsson, Thorgerdur Katrin Gunnarsdottir and Olafur Stephensen thinking now? Do they really belong in the same corner of society as David Oddson, Bjorn Bjarnason, Hannes Holmsteinn Gissurarson, Kjartan Gunnarsson and Oskar Magnusson? Or is their political career “paid” by the same interest groups? The list of Independence Party coat-tailers whose [...]
→ July 3, 2009
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The worst thing to come out of the Icelandic economic miracle was the upper-class that all of a sudden existed out of nowhere. Private jets were a rarity in Iceland before 2000, in 2007 they were the preferred ride of bankers, businessmen and politicians. Only a few oddballs and gays had heard of Philip Starck [...]
→ June 30, 2009
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Shortly after the crash in October, news came from Kaupthing that key employees had just been relieved of their liabilities towards loans they’d been granted to buy shares in the bank. That decision was made by the bank’s management, with the approval of the bank’s head lawyer, Helgi Sigurdsson. Now, DV.is has revealed the amounts [...]
