Iceland abandoned the "131 to the Euro" peg it had been attempting to defend since... yesterday. That snickering you hear is inadvertent. We are actually crying on the inside. Really. I love Iceland. Some of my best friends are Icelandic....

When I was a little girl, one of my classmates, an obnoxious, blond, little tot named "Anders," was fond of saying "You can't afford it!" to everyone who was in earshot. Later in life, I became certain Eddie Murphy had...