Wednesday, March 11, 2009

le poisson = the fish

A story of ‘fish’ (=‘poisson’) and things that go a bit south in Vanity Fair.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/04/iceland200904?currentPage=1

Fishermen turned bankers, who were laid off from trading jobs in October and now might return to fishing.
A tiny fishing nation, population 300,000, that decided, around 2003, to re-invent itself as a global financial powernation
The article follows the peculiarly Icelandic logic behind the meltdown.

A fishy tale.

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