"On a gloomy morning in early August, more than a month before Wall Street and the world's financial system seized up, a senior aide to Iceland's Prime Minister paid a visit to the Russian embassy in Reykjavík to make a controversial request: Bail us out. Iceland had asked its traditional allies for help, but to its consternation, its pleas to the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the European Central Bank went unheeded. Instead, the answer was always, 'Ask the International Monetary Fund' - a drastic step Iceland didn't want to take. That left Russia. 'We knew that talking to them would create a shock, and that was partly the point,' says a senior Icelander involved in the démarche."Fortune skriver om vad som hände bakom kulisserna när den isländska ekonomin kraschade.
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