Well, those are his own words, I’m a victim of the credit crunch.  An Icelandic bank?  Who knew?

Michael Lewis of Moneyball fame has a Vanity Street article delving into how Iceland went bankrupt, and how they became an international finance hotspot in the first place.  Wall Street on the Tundra

Reading the article feels like reading a piece of highly imaginative, absurdist fiction, until you realize that its (at least mostly) true.  Then it feels like reading a horror novel.