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Archive for October 19th, 2008

Iceland and Thomas Friedman

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

New York Times Op-Ed columnist Thomas Friedman uses his latest op-ed to connect the tragedy of Iceland’s banking system with his theories on the flat world, and hits the nail perfectly on the head. As he begins:
If you’re looking for a single example of how the globalization of finance helped get us into this mess [...]