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

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Main Author: Johnsen, Gudrun
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Subjects:
Bank failures > Iceland > History > 21st century.
Banks and banking > Corrupt practices > Iceland > History > 21st century.
Bank management > Iceland > History > 21st century.
Physical Description:xxii, 243 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
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?