This article originally appeared as a part of my regular column at Kjarninn.is. The original article is still available here (in Icelandic). I plan on publishing all my articles here on my blog in English (with some delay). Please forgive any typos as I can only afford so much time on translating the articles. I…
The Icelandic central bank has a tricky problem. They have to make a long(ish) term predictions about inflation for the tiny island of Iceland. As Iceland makes almost nothing it consumes and most of what it makes is produced using resources from abroad The price level in Iceland is extremely sensitive to the depreciation of…
This article originally appeared as a part of my regular column at Kjarninn.is. The original article is still available here (in Icelandic). I plan on publishing all my articles here on my blog in English (with some delay). Please forgive any typos as I can only afford so much time on translating the articles. In…
Hið alumtalaða samtal Davíð Oddsonar og Geir H. Haarde var nýlega gert opinbert. Það var sent beint upp í greiningardeild Eikanomics til rannsóknar. Frumniðurstöður rannsóknarinnar eru nú tilbúnar og eru þær heldur betur sláandi. Eftirfarandi kom í ljós: Í heildina fara 861 orð á milli þeirra og segja þeir þessi orð í 95 setningum. Hvorugur…
This article originally appeared as a part of my regular column at Kjarninn.is. The original article is still available here (in Icelandic). I plan on publishing all my articles here on my blog in English (with some delay). Please forgive any typos as I can only afford so much time on translating the articles. A…
The other day I attended a street festival in a nearby street here in Cologne. Like any other street festival it offered a range of activities: home made food and cakes; flower headband workshop; and, of course, a tombola (also known as raffle in some places). Me, my partner and her brother purchased 5 tickets…
Heimat is a German word with no good English equivalent. It describes the relationship of a person to a specific geographic (or social) unit. I myself have few Heimat’s. Iceland is one of them and Eherenfeld, my neighbourhood in Germany is another. It is my view that Ehrenfeld is the nicest neighbourhoods in the city…
As I was scrolling through Facebook earlier I came across a post by one of my favourite Facebook friends, the kebab place in Reykjavik called Ali Baba. The first reason why Ali Baba has become such a good friend on Facebook is of course that they make the tastiest kebab place in the country. It…
If you are anything like me then you have been somewhat nervous ever since the Brits voted in the EU referendum. It seemed like, without a clue often what they were actually voting for, half of the nation (that could be bothered to actually vote, which makes it roughly a quarter) voted to leave the…
Yes, yes, the Oscars are coming up and some people are getting excited. Red carpet, Brad Pitt and all that. Many respectable news outlets have been quite confident in La La Land will be taking home the ultimate price of best picture this year. However, apparently other films (potentially not starring as pretty people as…
According to a new study from the HPLMGH Institute a five minute nap on Saturday afternoons increases your chances of breaking your toe while walking to work next week. Sorry, this was a lie. But it is not much different from many other news items millions of people have to scroll through on their social…
Dear reader, as you know, this blogger likes to write overly long posts with way too much detail and unnecessary content. As a result, many people do not read through. Therefore, if you do not care about who I am (which is totally understandable) or if you already know my story, then I recommend you…
