Thursday, October 09, 2008

Sixth Triple-Digit Loss in a Row

Iceland is bankrupt - they borrowed heavily from abroad to invest in banking assets. Those assets are essentially worthless now. Iceland was a big hedge fund.

Russia is hoping to get the US base in Iceland and get a foothold in the Atlantic. That's probably what we need - another cold war - so that we can get the defense industry moving again and get the economy going.

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