`, 13 October 2008 (UTC) :::Well twenty years ago, a degree in fish pathology might actually have been a good qualification to be Icelandic finance minister! But on a more serious note, there's been some suggestion (beyond sniping) in the English-language press (see the two articles in ``External links``) that one of the causes of the crisis was that the politicians who were supposed to be overseeing Iceland's banks didn't have a sufficient grasp of the risks that were being taken.   10:37`