Bringing down the banking system lessons from Iceland / Gudrun Johnsen.

Author/creator Johnsen, Gudrun
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2014]
Descriptionxxii, 243 pages ; 22 cm
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Contents Background -- Illusion of prosperity -- Collapse -- August 8, 2007 : subprime crisis enters the spotlight -- October 6, 2008 : God bless Iceland -- Panic -- Investigation -- Financial liberalization -- How did the bankers do it? -- Funding the banks -- The geyser crisis -- Love letters to the rescue -- Playing tricks on the European Central Bank -- Why did the bankers do it? -- The web of ownership -- Tunneling money through related party lending -- Market manipulation and falsification of equity -- Wages of failure -- Why didn't anybody stop the bankers? -- Funded by the ill-informed -- Debt free state, isolated and without credit -- Putting a poodle on the watch -- What have we learned?.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index.
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LCCN 2013025082
ISBN9781137358196 (hardback)
ISBN9781137455574 (paperback)

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