Iceland President: Let Banks Go Bankrupt
EUROPE, JUSTICE, ECONOMICS, CAPITALISM, SHORT VIDEO CLIPS, 4 Feb 2013
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service
Iceland President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson tells Al Jazeera’s Stephen Cole that Europe should let banks that are ran “irresponsibly” go bankrupt.
Speaking at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Grimsson also held his country as a model of economic recovery after its near-collapse four years ago. “We didn’t follow the traditional prevailing orthodoxies. And the end result four years later is that Iceland is enjoying progress and recovery.”
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