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Zusatztext 'Boyes! a Times correspondent! efficiently analyses Iceland as a microcosm of a bigger problem and considers its next moves' Informationen zum Autor Roger Boyes is an awardwinning correspondent, having covered Western and Eastern Europe for the past thirty years for the Financial Times and the Times of London. He has been reporting from Iceland since he was sent on his first foreign assignment to cover the Cod War in 1976. He lives in Berlin. Klappentext The inside story of the bankrupting of IcelandIt is a truism that when America sneezes, Europe catches a cold. The sub-prime mortgage crisis, which began in America in 2007, unleashed a veritable epidemic of financial ill health all over the world. All European countries were affected, and the developing world also felt a chill. However it was Iceland, a tiny volcanic outcrop in the North Atlantic whose population of 300,000 had the highest per capita GDP and counted itself the happiest in the world, which caught the worst cold. It has nearly killed them. Written with panache and colour, and drawing on interviews with everyone from the prime minister, Sir Phillip Green, the governor of the central bank, Björk and the local fisherman, Meltdown Iceland is an authoritative account of the financial destruction of this tiny, icy but vibrant country. An accessible, compelling and authoritative account of the financial destruction of Iceland Zusammenfassung The sub-prime mortgage crisis, which began in America in 2007, unleashed a veritable epidemic of financial ill health all over the world. However it was Iceland, a tiny volcanic outcrop in the North Atlantic, which caught the worst cold. It has nearly killed them. This title offers an account of the financial destruction of this country.
