Robert Boyes, Times correspondent and author of the new book Meltdown Iceland, says that everyone except Icelanders knew the Icelandic economic collapse was approaching as early as 2006. Read the full story

Icelandic newspaper DV claims that some 10,000 subscribers have given up rival paper, Morgunbladid since former Prime Minister and central bank manager David Oddsson was appointed editor. Read the full story

The parliamentary president’s committee has decided in a meeting on Wednesday that it will terminate its Morgunbladid subscription for MPs. The Icelandic parliament has, up until now, paid for each Member of Parliament to receive a daily copy of the newspaper. Read the full story

Former Icelandic Prime Minister and head of the Central Bank of Iceland David Oddsson has been hired as the new editor of Morgunbladid, the country’s most influential and widely bought newspaper. Former Vidskiptabladid editor Haraldur Johannessen will be co-editor and Sigurdur Mar Jonsson will take over at Vidskiptabladid, Iceland’s business and financial newspaper. Read the full story

David Oddsson, former head of the Central Bank of Iceland (CBI), gave a controversial speech to the Independence Party conference on Saturday. In the speech Oddsson accused his replacement Svein Harald Oygard of either lying or suffering from a very serious case of Alzheimer’s disease. Read the full story

Bjarni Benediktsson is the new party leader of the Independence Party, with 58.1 percent of votes, and is taking over the leadership from Geir Haarde, former Prime Minister and successor to David Oddsson. At the party conference Haarde said the Independence Party had made “serious mistakes” when the banks were privatized six years ago. Read the full story

David Oddsson and Eirikur Gudnason, the governors of the Central Bank of Iceland, said a fond farewell to bank staff at a meeting earlier today, MBL reported. Read the full story

Central Bank of Iceland (CBI) chairman, David Oddsson made a rare public appearance on the Kastljos current affairs programme on RUV television this evening. Read the full story

Geir H. Haarde, the former Icelandic Prime Minister, was in a BBC HARDtalk interview last night. He was questioned especially about the blame of the financial collapse last October, communication between him and the British PM Gordon Brown and private talks with the governor of the Central Bank of Iceland, David Oddsson. Read the full story

At around dinner time on 2 February 2009, a letter was sent by messenger from the Prime Minister to the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Central Bank of Iceland at the latter’s home. The Chairman’s place of work, of course, is the Central Bank, and this was a working day. Read the full story