"The government of Iceland reached out to the continental Nordics for assistance during the crisis as well as to major central banks such as the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of England. The furious public forced its government/elite out of office and not just the cabinet: the top management at the Central Bank of Iceland resigned and private bankers ended up in prison."Hilmar Þór Hilmarsson, ekonom vid Háskólinn á Akureyri, skriver i Social Europe om 2008 års finanskris på Island.
