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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Faced with economic disaster, Icelanders could care less that their prime minister is gay]]></title><link>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/01/29/faced-with-economic-disaster-icelanders-could-care-less-that-t/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/01/29/faced-with-economic-disaster-icelanders-could-care-less-that-t/</guid><comments>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/01/29/faced-with-economic-disaster-icelanders-could-care-less-that-t/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/other-issues/" rel="tag">Other Issues</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/economic-data/" rel="tag">Economic Data</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/financial-crisis/" rel="tag">Financial Crisis</a></p><img alt="" hspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.bloggingstocks.com/media/2009/01/icelandprotest.jpg" align="right" vspace="4" border="1" />Perhaps no economy in the world is in such disastrous shape as Iceland. Last year, the weight of the global financial crisis crushed this island nation causing its banking system to implode, its currency to collapse <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSLO529629">and its unemployment rate to soar.</a><br /><br />This is quite a reversal for the country founded circa 874 AD. The United Nations' Human Development Index ranked Iceland as the world's most developed country. Maybe that was the result of the reckless abandon shown in<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland"> running the country's banks.</a><p><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/01/29/faced-with-economic-disaster-icelanders-could-care-less-that-t/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Faced with economic disaster, Icelanders could care less that their prime minister is gay</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/01/29/faced-with-economic-disaster-icelanders-could-care-less-that-t/">Faced with economic disaster, Icelanders could care less that their prime minister is gay</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com">BloggingStocks</a> on Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:15:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/world-gets-its-first-gay-head-of-state-1519068.html>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/01/29/faced-with-economic-disaster-icelanders-could-care-less-that-t/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/forward/1444923/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/01/29/faced-with-economic-disaster-icelanders-could-care-less-that-t/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>eu</category><category>europe</category><category>gay</category><category>iceland</category><category>inthenews</category><category>Johanna Sigurdardottir</category><category>JohannaSigurdardottir</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Berr]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:15:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
