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Foreign businessmen took advantage of the sudden and temporary plight of the Icelanders during the 2008 bank collapse to grab Icelandic-owned assets at prices far below market prices, even prices in a depression. They could do this because authorities in … Continue reading →

At a well-attended 30 January 2014 meeting jointly organised by RNH, the Europe Watch and the Institute of International Affairs at the University of Iceland, the British political commentator Dr Richard North suggested that the United Kingdom should consider joining … Continue reading →

Gisli Hauksson, chairman of the RNH board, and Skafti Hardarson, chairman of the Icelandic Taxpayers’ Association, attended the annual New York Freedom Dinner of the Atlas Foundation 14 November 2013. Atlas Foundation is an international network of research institutes exploring … Continue reading →

The Lord Lamont of Lerwick, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1990–3, said in Budapest at a conference on the 2008 international financial crisis 15 November 2013 that invoking the anti-terrorism law against Iceland, as the British Labour government then … Continue reading →

In the Hague 12 November 2013, the application of RNH, the Icelandic Research Centre for Innovation and Economic Growth, to join the Platform of European Memory and Conscience was accepted. Formed in 2011 in response to the resolutions by the … Continue reading →

At a seminar in the Faculty of Business Administration 5 November 2013, Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson criticized the accounts on the Icelandic economy given by authors such as Roger Boyes, Robert Wade and Sigurbjorg Sigurgeirsdottir. Those people claimed that the … Continue reading →