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Where the he!! can a guy get some Icelandic treasury bond rates...

This would be a nice exercise in seeing what the effects of hard-default and devaluation are.
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http://www.bonds.is/

is that link what you are after?
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Stone,

Perfect!

Rates look pretty low for a country that just defaulted and devalued its currency...
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Is Argentina the classic example of a larger country that transfered to a free floating currency after abandoning a Greece style scenario with an unsustainable pegged currency?
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