Iceland’s Economic Upswing Is A Lesson To Us All. In 2008 when the United States and most of Europe decided to bail out the banks instead of allowing them to fail, Iceland chose a different path. As their entire banking system collapsed, the small nation of 320,000 opted to forgive mortgage debt, and began rebuilding from scratch. The country isn’t out of the woods yet, but today they are politically and financially stable. The current unemployment rate is down to 5%–better than in Great Britain or the United States (both 6%), and much lower than Spain (26%), Ireland (11%), and Greece (30%). Clearly this is a multi-layered issue, and what works in one small, largely homogeneous nation might not work in a large, diverse one like the United States, but perhaps punishing–not rewarding–the people responsible for the collapse was the correct course of action after all. ** source:6news.net/icelands-economic-upswing-is-a-lesson-to-us-all/ video source:https://youtube/watch?v=2NIyIaBRm2k
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 12:27:10 +0000