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a piece on the implosion of Iceland
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/04/iceland200904?printable=true¤tPage=all
Not technical in nature (go to the Wikipedia article for that), but an interesting look at the attitudes and geneses (genesises? genesi?) of a financial problem that makes that of the US look almost minor. (It also reminds me somewhat of the planet with the shoemaking economy described in Douglas Adams' Restaurant at the End of the Universe.)
Not technical in nature (go to the Wikipedia article for that), but an interesting look at the attitudes and geneses (genesises? genesi?) of a financial problem that makes that of the US look almost minor. (It also reminds me somewhat of the planet with the shoemaking economy described in Douglas Adams' Restaurant at the End of the Universe.)