When Neil Armstrong took his small step from Apollo 11 and looked around, he probably thought, Wow, sort of like Iceland-even though the moon was nothing like Iceland. But then, he was a tourist, and a tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there. When Iceland became a tourist in global high finance it had the same problem as Neil Armstrong.
( Michael Lewis )
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