islandicum brooklynensis

As an Icelander living in the United States, I frequently compare my current home with my homeland. One of the recent things that has interested me is how differently the two countries are responding to the financial crisis. In the US it's all about stimulus packages and using the economic downturn as an opportunity to invest heavily in education, healthcare, infrastructure and energy independence. In Iceland, guided by the IMF, it's all about austerity measures, repaying debt and massive budget cuts in health, education etc. How is it that the IMF (which is pretty much run by the US) always instructs countries to cut government budgets and privatize as much as possible, but when the US is in trouble, the Americans do the opposite?



My sister has recently complained over the paucity of color photos on this blog. The thign is that I´ve been having so much fun developing film recently and I only develop B&W, so I haven´t done much digital shooting recently. From here on, I´ll look for a more balanced approach. This is from last Sunday, when we went to Prospect Park.