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...dismantle the caricature of Iceland as a victim of its own excess, and instead portray it as the target of a financial conspiracy. Prime Minister Haarde has accused international hedge funds of deliberately spreading rumors to create a banking scare, so they could profit by "hook or crook" from wagers that the currency or stocks would tumble. In April, Iceland's Financial Supervisory Authority launched an investigation into an unconfirmed story that back in January, hedge-fund managers had hatched a plan to bet against the currency over drinks at a posh Reykjavik...
...Bank Job” features a series of characters who at first seem completely unconnected but are gradually drawn together by the incongruous plot, which combines a bank robbery with a government cover-up. There’s Terry Leather (Statham), a small-time crook and owner of a body shop who has trouble keeping hired goons from smashing his car windows. Then we have Michael X, the hilariously stereotypical fist-raising Black Panther from Trinidad. He’s one of the bad guys, the movie tells us—can’t you tell from the Malcolm...
...little jail time (Frank's life sentence was commuted to 15 years). It is also improved by the fact that Crowe's bumptious character comes to enjoy the man's company, even becoming his attorney when he leaves law enforcement. It's the old Dostoyevskian bit about cop and crook being brothers under the skin. In the film, the only truly loathsome villain is a crooked cop, Detective Trupo, played with wonderful brutality by Josh Brolin, who encourages us to think that the only real crime is to interrupt the smooth flow of criminal entrepreneurship...
...embrace free markets and free trade, the inevitable response is, What about your farm programs? "Our credibility is zero," says economist Daniel Sumner, a former Assistant Agriculture Secretary who runs the University of California's Agricultural Issues Center. "Every other country thinks of us as a liar and a crook...
...administration is being accused of bribing lawmakers to support her own impeachment. "What galls the public was that it was done so flagrantly," says political analyst and newspaper columnist Manuel L. Quezon III, referring to the bags of cash. "In the Philippines, everyone expects everyone else to be a crook. What Filipinos cannot stand is a brazen crook...