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Only 3 minutes worth listening to from World Economic Forum 2013

Monday, January 28, 2013 4:20

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“Why do we consider banks to be like holy churches?” is the rhetorical question that Iceland’s President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson asks (and answers) in this truly epic three minutes of truthiness from the farce that is the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Amid a week of back-slapping and self-congratulatory party-outdoing, as John Aziz notes, the Icelandic President explains why his nation is growing strongly, why unemployment is negligible, and how they moved from the world’s poster-child for banking crisis 5 years ago to a thriving nation once again.

Simply put, he says, “we didn’t follow the prevailing orthodoxies of the last 30 years in the Western world.”

There are lessons here for everyone – as Grimsson explains the process of creative destruction that remains much needed in Western economies – though we suspect his holographic pass for next year’s Swiss fun will be reneged…