Vikingsson on October 17th, 2009

Once upon a time a U.S. president looking for re-election lost in no small part to a clever slogan, “It’s the Economy, stupid”.   Here we are again in the middle of another economic “crisis”, kreppa if you will.  When the man on the street is asked about what is important for politicians to focus on [...]

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Vikingsson on March 25th, 2009

Best quote of the day, from The Iceland Weather Report The Icelandic nation has been nearly wiped out about three times in the last 1,000 years, through famine, disease, or volcanic eruptions. So what we are experiencing today is like a luxury problem.

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Vikingsson on January 29th, 2008

Nice to see some sensible free trade happening between Canada and Iceland. Maybe we’ll see more variety of products between the countries and finally have some choices besides the same old crap from China. Who knows, I might become more of a consumer. I want a Pönnukökkupanna Framleidd síðan 1943…

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Vikingsson on January 9th, 2008

With the continuing drama that never ends and starts much too early which we call the U.S. election process, it is refreshing to study the workings of a tiny country and how that system works. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson is running for a fourth term as president. Sometimes, a country doesn’t need high drama to select [...]

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