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Reykjavik, Iceland, October 8, 2008--A woman waits for the main branch of Landsbanki to open the day after Iceland's government seized the bank in the midst of the nation's financial meltdown.

The government has also seized two other major banks, and trading on its stock market is suspended until Monday.

Easy credit allowed Iceland's economy to boom in recent years; banks' assets swelled to ten times the nation's economic output. The global credit freeze popped the bubble.
—Photograph by Bob Strong/Reuters
 

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