Vanity Fair has an interesting article about how Iceland became a global financial power in five short years and then bankrupted itself in the financial crisis this past fall.
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However, the best thing Iceland did was accept their fate and start over. Bailing out Too Big Too Fail has simply postponed the bankruptcies.