An Icelandic Norn Curses the Head of the Central Bank.
With pictures.
From "Surviving Iceland" blog.
Yes, she is spanking the Head of the Central Bank, in effigy.
You worried yet Ben?
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It must have worked, the exchange rate of the króna surged in early trading this week...
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One of the infuriating things about the collapse of Big Shitpile is that there hasn't seemed to be much you or I can do about it (and that wanker Bernanke is useless). Until now.
I already have two articles for my issue of Tangl
the financial crisis spreads to Iceland
the financial markets are in turmoil outside the US also
mortgage companies, investment banks and insurance groups are collapsing in the UK, Belgium and Germany as well as the US, with the trouble likely to spread further
So can the banks. A key impediments to economic recovery is underwater mortgages: people repay housing loans for more than the underlying property is worth. Many Dirty Fucking Hippies sane people have recommended that banks be forced to 'cramdown' these mortgages*.
What a country.