Fighting Recession the Icelandic Way

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Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Few countries blew up morespectacularly than Iceland in the 2008 financial crisis. Thelocal stock market plunged 90 percent; unemployment roseninefold; inflation shot to more than 18 percent; the country’sbiggest banks all failed.