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020			_a9781408803080
100			_aBoyes, Roger.
245		0	_aMeltdown Iceland _bhow the global financial crisis bankrupted an entire country
260			_aLondon _bBloomsbury _c2009
300			_a244p.
500			_aIncludes index
520			_aIt is a truism that when America sneezes, Europe catches a cold. The subprime 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 GDP and counted itself the happiest in the world, which caught the worst cold. It has nearly killed them.
650			_aFinancial crisis
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