Let the old gentleman send all cetaceans in Icelandic waters to whale heaven, kill off all our livestock, and our good minister surely won’t have to fork out money for nothing no more.

THORSTEINN SIGLAUGSSON AUG 19, 2023 READ

In 2005, approaching the peak of the Icelandic banking miracle, the country’s president, Dr. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson – a chief cheerleader when it came to touting the skills of Icelandic bankers at making money from nothing, as they travelled around buying up assets with borrowed money – famously warned the world about their ingenuity saying: “You ain’t seen nothing yet!”