I cannot help it. As much as my secretly stingy heart hurts when I pay my rent, which has jumped from 32.000 Icelandic Krónur to 45.000 Icelandic Krónur since I moved here due to currency changes, I just cannot hide my little grin when I read headlines like "10 years of affluence on a halt". For a decade now, and probably more, we, Icelanders, have been amongst the richest of richest. We've be able to afford grand cars, gigantic villas and meals consisting largely of pine nuts and truffles.
Don't get me wrong, there are of course some downsides to our sudden shrinkage of wallets. But I also think it is extremely healthy to the average ostentatious lifestyle of an Icelander. And not to forget the benefits of the environments. Instead of polluting LandRovers the nation is now digging through the clutter in the garage, locating the bicycle somewhere under the 3 almost-unused gas BBQ and the trampoline the children wanted last summer but are now tired of. Instead of buying the latest model of iPods every fortnight and throwing the old one away with all it's single-use plastic and aluminum the consumers take care and try to make things last a bit longer.
Sadly the nation is barely more green because of the longing to be green. They're just green 'cause they cannot be blue anymore. But at least the color is green...
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Já svekkjandi að eiga íslenskar krónur...
Hins vegar er mjög góður tími til að fjárfesta í hlutabréfum á Íslandi næstu mánuðina eftir öll hrunin.
Kannski maður noti námslánin í það?
Sérstaklega lán ofan á yfirdráttarheimild
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