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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIceland Jailed Bankers and Rejected Austerity—and It’s Been a Success
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Iceland Jailed Bankers and Rejected Austerityand Its Been a Success
Posted on Jun 11, 2015
By Roisin Davis
When the global economic crisis hit in 2008, Iceland suffered terriblyperhaps more than any other country. The savings of 50,000 people were wiped out, plunging Icelanders into debt and placing 25 percent of its homeowners in mortgage default.
Now, less than a decade later, the nations economy is booming. And this year it will become the first culturally European country that faced collapse to beat its pre-crisis peak of economic output.
Thats because it took a different approach. Instead of imposing devastating austerity measures and bailing out its banks, Iceland let its banks go bust and focused on social welfare policies. In March, the International Monetary Fund announced that the country had achieved economic recovery without compromising its welfare model of universal health care and education.
Iceland allowed those responsible for the crisisits bankersto be prosecuted as criminals. Again, a sharp contrast to the United States and elsewhere in Europe, where CEOs escaped punishment. ............(more)
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/iceland_jailed_bankers_and_rejected_austerity_--_and_its_been_a_success_201
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Iceland Jailed Bankers and Rejected Austerity—and It’s Been a Success (Original Post)
marmar
Jun 2015
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valerief
(53,235 posts)1. For the billionaires? nt
Scuba
(53,475 posts)2. Meanwhile, in the US, the banksters wear Presidential Seal cufflinks.
malaise
(269,365 posts)3. Meanwhile in Jamaica
life gets worse for the most vulnerable and everyone else but the 1%.
Austerity measures only work for corporations, the biggest banks and their tools.