Comments on: Eurosceptic Telegraph still praising Iceland

By: Bromley86

Bromley86 — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:23:01 +0000

Oystein. I saw something similar in a BBC report. Now that they’re officially allowed back in, the returned to a supermarket that they secretly filmed a while back. Instead of totally empty shelves, they were fully stocked. Not just with domestic unpackaged produce either (not that processed/preserved food is a mark of quality, but it is a mark of a working distribution network).

Still, the report did say that the country had effectively adopted the USD, so perhaps not a vindication of the “quantitative easing” :) .

By: Øystein;Norway

Øystein;Norway — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:23:39 +0000

Bromley: Perhaps things happend in Zimbabwe:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601084&sid=a01hMdAPC0g8

By: Lion in the North

Lion in the North — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:31:45 +0000

Iceland will get there in the end.They are a race of resilient optimists,afterall. I mean,who else but an optimist would live on a volcanic island made up of constantly mobile tectonic plates,few natural resources and a history of boom/bust economies?? The real change required after the kreppa is that to political integrity,honesty,ethics and morality……with a refreshing departure from the old oligarchic system of fat,balding men with small members in black Hummers,running the nation for themselves and their pals. Having the assorted Outvasion Vikings (and their facilitators) do some time in jail for fraud and treason would also go a long way towards assuaging national anger.

By: Bromley86

Bromley86 — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:46:48 +0000

And the Most Quippy Comment award goes to Mark Barber:

So what happened in Iceland is a success story eh?

Does this mean that next week we can read about how Zimbabwe showed the world that quantitative easing works?

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By: Alexander E.

Alexander E. — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:30:51 +0000

Well, the krona fall was like a basket of cold water for a drunk person – to get him back to reality. Indeed it was pure madness – all these Land Rovers, Porshe, plazma screens and other “luxury” stuff. Icelanders are not that reach really as they were told.
The crisis also showed them the real face of famous “oldest democracy”.
But it’s not the currency that might make recovery faster. It’s the loss of illusions that makes people of Iceland to get back to reality and fix the things faster ;-)

By: Knowless

Knowless — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:18:44 +0000

If a butterfly in the Amazon flaps its wings in praise of Iceland, we would hear about it, in an Icenews headline :)

By: Fisy

Fisy — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:52:30 +0000

Yes this is a good article.

Do find it fun that Euroskeptic is used in front of Telegraph. When FT.com write article on Iceland and EU will you editors make sure that article is titled –

“Europhile FT.com still praising Iceland EU membership”

Stepping back a bit from looking at EUR and currencies in general, expect shock devaluation of USD coming up.