Explaining the post-deregulation investment banks of Iceland.
Or, how to make money off banana trees north of the arctic circle...
The Banana Republic of Iceland: Always Six Months Ahead of the Rest of the World
It is of course Inconceivable that something like this would actually happen in a modern democratic republic.
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