Läser just nu den här artikeln från Vanity Fair, som handlar om Islands uppgång och fall. Rekommenderar den verkligen, då killen verkar ha huvudet på skaft och gjort sitt jobb. Gillar speciellt det här stycket, som beskriver sakerna klart bättre än jag själv lyckats med: Nor were the Icelanders particularly choosy about what they bought. I spoke with a hedge fund in New York that, in late 2006, spotted what it took to be an easy mark: a weak Scandinavian bank getting weaker. It established a short position, and then, out of nowhere, came Kaupthing to take a 10 percent stake in this soon-to-be defunct enterprise—driving up the share price to absurd levels. I spoke to another hedge fund in London so perplexed by the many bad LBOs Icelandic banks were financing that it hired private investigators to figure out what was going on in the Icelandic financial system. The investigators produced a chart detailing a byzantine web of interlinked entities that boiled down to this: A handful of guys...
I'm writing whatever catches my fancy; ranging from my future novel, bad jokes to whatever I'm up to on each and every day. But these days, more and more about us, our World, and how I want it to be. I believe in a World with less stress, more humanity and more of less.