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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY!

"Whoever heard of a hundred thousand animals rushing together to butcher each other, as men do everywhere [during war]?"-- Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch humanist, 1466-1536

 

Iceland suspends stock trading, creates new bank

Iceland suspended trading on its stock exchange for two days and took control of the country's largest bank -- the third to be placed under its protective umbrella -- on Thursday as it grappled with a banking crisis that is threatening to engulf the entire country.

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