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Eva Joly in a farewell interview

October 18, 2010

So, Eva Joly gave a final interview on Silfur Egils this afternoon, recorded just after she stepped down as advisor to the Special Prosecutor into the bank collapse. As always, her lucid comments and composed, assured demeanor inspired confidence — to me, at least. I know there are a handful of people out there who [...]

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Eva Joly bids farewell

October 13, 2010

Eva Joly announced at a press conference this afternoon that she is stepping down as special advisor to the Special Prosecutor’s Office in the investigation into potential criminal activity in connection with the meltdown. This is effective immediately. Mme Joly intends to run for the presidency in France — hence this change. Originally she had [...]

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Demonstration this evening in front of Althingi

October 4, 2010

So a demonstration has been called for this evening at 7.30 in front of the parliament buildings, when PM Jóhanna delivers her keynote speech. I have a feeling it is going to be major. Yesterday on Silfur Egils I heard someone say he would like to see the government step down within ten days, and [...]

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Eva Joly on the oligarchs’ arrests

May 31, 2010

This is slightly belated, but still fascinating: an interview with Eva Joly on Silfur Egils from May 16, in which she speaks about the arrests of the Kaupthing bankers earlier this month. I didn’t post it earlier because I was counting on Lára Hanna to post it on her blog. The RÚV website, where the [...]

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Dissecting the Best Party’s appeal*

May 31, 2010

So here we are, the day after the day after the elections, absorbing the fact that a comedian is about to become the mayor of Reykjavík and trying to figure out what this all means. I’m totally weary of the “people want change” slogan, because, well, duh! Obviously they want change — otherwise the Best [...]

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Two excellent interviews on Silfur Egils

May 3, 2010

Yesterday’s Silfur Egils* was excellent. The two most notable interviews in my opinion were those with Þorvaldur Gylfason, a professor of economics at the University of Iceland, and with William K. Black, an American lawyer and former bank regulator who is an expert in white-collar crime. Þorvaldur Gylfason is a man of strong opinions with [...]

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You told us so!

March 16, 2010

So RÚV ran a report this evening on the life and times of Alex Jurshevski, whom I blogged about two days ago. They’d managed to dig up an interview with him in MacLeans magazine from three years ago, where he gleefully stated that he hoped there would be an economic recession so that he could [...]

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More loans the “kiss of death” for Iceland

March 14, 2010

Well, it’s Sunday, and Sunday means Silfur Egils.* There were four guests today, all with fascinating things to say [as usual]. I won’t get into specifics of the first three, but rather talk briefly about the fourth, Alex Jurshevski, a specialist in debt management who apparently is here to speak to the Icelandic government about [...]

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Things you always wanted to know about tax havens but were too afraid to ask

February 21, 2010

Utterly fascinating interview on Silfur Egils today with a man named John Christensen, who runs an organization called Tax Justice Network. Christensen, an economist, is an expert in tax havens. He’s originally from Jersey [one of the main tax havens in the world] and worked for several years as an advisor to the Jersey government. [...]

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Max Keiser on Silfur Egils

January 31, 2010

Max Keiser was on Silfur Egils today. I have to confess I had no idea who Max Keiser was, although the name did ring a bell. After a minute or two of searching I remembered why – TJ posted something about him in the forums a while back. Clearly not everyone is like me, because [...]

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