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Iceland Shows Ireland Did ‘Wrong Things’ Saving Banks
Submitted by Michael Kleen on Fri, 2011-02-04 03:00
Unlike other nations, including the U.S. and Ireland, which injected billions of dollars of capital into their financial institutions to keep them afloat, Iceland placed its biggest lenders in receivership. It chose not to protect creditors of the country’s banks, whose assets had ballooned to $209 billion, 11 times gross domestic product.
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