Umsögn Conrads Blacks

Fróðlegt er að lesa umsögn hins kunna (að sumra sögn alræmda) rithöfundar Conrads Blacks, sem var blaðaútgefandi áður fyrr, um bók, sem ég skrifaði í og kom út fyrir ári, Understanding the Crash. Black segir í tímaritinu New Criterion um framlag mitt:

Hannes Gissurarson gives a fascinating picture of the economic rise and fall and resurrection of Iceland, and shows that its own mistakes were aggravated by the Federal Reserve’s suddenly ceasing to allow currency exchanges into dollars, and by the British government’s invoking completely misapplied anti-terrorist rules against Icelandic banks operating in the U.K. There is no doubt that the reckless antics of these two great powers, normally friendly to Iceland, caused a terrible escalation in the country’s problems, but after a brief flirtation with the regulatory left, it has bounced back very well. He concludes with Thucydides that “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.