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kreppa

Meltdown: The e-Book!

April 23, 2010

What happens to ordinary people when a nation’s economy collapses? Over the last year and a half I have been asked that question, or variations thereof, numerous times. Much of the discussion about the meltdown here in Iceland has focused on the Big Picture – the systemic failure, the culprits, the banks, the currency fiasco, [...]

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Christmas in the shadow of the kreppa

December 21, 2009

These are busy days here at the Weather Report. The last few days before Christmas and so many little details to take care of. I’m sure most of you can relate. I’ve been rather pleased with myself this year at how well organized I am – when you do the same things every year it [...]

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On Icelandic and the meaning of nuance

December 1, 2009

So, the dudes from WikiLeaks are in town to stake out the general area. They were interviewed on Silfur Egils this past weekend and, from what I could gather, they have something fairly dramatic up their sleeves – some juicy revelation involving SMS messages and the manager of one of Iceland’s failed banks. Stay tuned [...]

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