Briefing | Iceland
Cracks in the crust
Iceland’s banking collapse is the biggest, relative to the size of an economy, that any country has ever suffered. There are lessons to be learnt beyond its shores
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This article appeared in the Briefing section of the print edition under the headline “Cracks in the crust”
Briefing
December 13th 2008
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