Early in 2008, Anne Sibert and I were asked by the Icelandic bank Landsbanki (now in receivership) to write a paper on the causes of the financial problems faced by Iceland and its banks, and on the ...

For Iceland, there was a sense of deja vu when Cyprus's finance minister said capital controls would probably last "a matter of weeks". Five years after a banking meltdown, the north Atlantic island ...

Iceland is a small island with a tiny, ethnically homogenous population: only 300,000, with more than half living in the capital, Reykjavik. It lacks coal reserves and is endowed with massive glaciers ...

So begins my sagas of Iceland, or Nan’s Tales of Travel. Iceland is known for its sagas, the stories told over the generations of how their people became to exist on this island, and of the natural ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Jan. 5 (UPI) --People in Iceland have lived off fishing for many centuries, and in the past decade aluminum production has carved out almost an equal stake in the economy. But both ...

“I stood in front of the parliament building every lunch hour and asked people, ‘Can you tell me what has happened in this country? Do you have any idea what we can do’?” Singer-songwriter, poet and ...