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Iceland’s Best-Laid Plan Falls Apart

Here’s how fluid things are: last week, Iceland nationalized Glitnir, the country’s third-largest bank. Today, it unnationalized Glitnir, putting it into receivership instead: clearly the bank’s liabilities were too large for the Icelandic government to take on. Yesterday, Iceland pegged … Continue reading

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