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My parents
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ISBN: 1283090953 9786613090959 0887553478 9780887556999 088755699X 9780887553479 Year: 2007 Publisher: Winnipeg [Man.] University of Manitoba Press

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My Parents: Memoirs of New World Icelanders is a collection of essays written by second-generation Icelandic immigrants in North America, describing the lives of their parents. Originally collected in 1956 by Dr. Finnbogi Gumundsson, the first Chair of Icelandic at the University of Manitoba, seven of the fourteen memoirs are translated here from Icelandic to English. They offer a rare first-hand look into the lives of New World immigrants of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Readers are invited straight into the heart of these people's lives, from social evenings spent reading poetry and the sagas, to the daily struggles to prepare the land and build homes. A prevailing sense of community emerges from the writers' stories, showing how Icelandic culture and tradition sustained the immigrants through hardship, illness, and isolation. My Parents also details some of the genealogy of the New World Icelanders who settled in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Minnesota.


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Iceland : 2007 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; and Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion.
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ISBN: 1462345352 1452787972 1280899093 9786613740403 1452723591 Year: 2007 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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This 2007 Article IV Consultation highlights that boom in private consumption in Iceland was facilitated by easing household credit conditions, tax cuts, rapidly rising housing and equity wealth, and an appreciating real exchange rate. As a result, the output gap peaked at over 5 percent in 2005, declining only modestly in 2006. Record current account deficits and credit downgrades early in 2007 caused little market disruption, in part reflecting a healthy financial sector. The exchange rate remained strong, and confidence in Icelandic banks stayed high.

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Monetary policy --- Fiscal policy --- Finance --- Funding --- Funds --- Economics --- Currency question --- Tax policy --- Taxation --- Economic policy --- Finance, Public --- Monetary management --- Currency boards --- Money supply --- Government policy --- Iceland --- Aisland --- Aisland ka Fasojamana --- Aisurando --- Cynewīse Īslandes --- Eisland --- Gweriniaeth Gwlad yr Iâ --- Gwlad yr Iâ --- Ísland --- Islanda --- Islande --- Islandi --- Islandia --- Islandii︠a︡ --- İslandiya --- Islandska --- Islandya --- Islandyi︠a︡ --- Islėnd --- Iylanda --- Lýðveldið Ísland --- Peng-tē --- Peng-tē Kiōng-hô-kok --- Republic of Iceland --- Rèpublica d'Islande --- Republica Islanda --- Republiek van Ysland --- Republik Island --- Republika Islandii︠a︡ --- Rėspublika Islandyi︠a︡ --- Tin Bikéyah --- Tin Kéyah --- Ysland --- Рэспубліка Ісландыя --- Република Исландия --- Исланд --- Исланди --- Исландия --- Ислэнд --- Ісландыя --- アイスランド --- Economic conditions --- Economic policy. --- Banks and Banking --- Exports and Imports --- Foreign Exchange --- Macroeconomics --- Industries: Financial Services --- Inflation --- Banks --- Depository Institutions --- Micro Finance Institutions --- Mortgages --- Fiscal Policy --- International Lending and Debt Problems --- Macroeconomics: Consumption --- Saving --- Wealth --- Current Account Adjustment --- Short-term Capital Movements --- Price Level --- Deflation --- Banking --- International economics --- Currency --- Foreign exchange --- Fiscal stance --- External debt --- Loans --- Private consumption --- Financial institutions --- National accounts --- Prices --- Banks and banking --- Debts, External --- Consumption

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