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by adamredwoods 1186 days ago
2008 crushed the Icelandic bank system. I don't think any one is in that kind of trouble right now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932011_Icelandic_fi...

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Iceland has like 300k people; it's a rounding error with regards to European population. It's like trusting Rhode Island as a barometer for the US, it just doesn't follow.