TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnsen,Gudrun
TI  - Bringing down the banking system: lessons from Iceland 
SN  - 9781137455574 (paperback)
U1  - 332.1094912 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Bank failures
KW  - Iceland
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - Banks and banking
KW  - Corrupt practices
KW  - Bank management
KW  - BUSECO
KW  - June2015
KW  - November2015
N1  - Index : p. 233-243; Bibliography : p. 227-232; 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?
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