No banks from the Nordics, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands or South America are listed as participants.
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In short, the Nordics are beginning to see each other as an extended home market.
For one thing, the Nordics have not managed to turn economic growth into low unemployment.
Now the question is whether the Nordics will dodge the two main risks that accompany success.
Still, the Russians and Nordics may, as Mr Yeltsin said, be warming towards each other.
At the other end of the scale, the Nordics undoubtedly win the prize for cleanliness.
The Nordics are free-traders who joined late and believe their national standards to be higher than Europe's.
Lastly, to the extent the Nordics have prospered, they have done so un-Nordically, by curbing the state.
Icelanders look as much to the United States and Britain as they do to their fellow Nordics.
The Nordics are also more economically free than the US in many ways, read Scott Sumner on that.
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For the Belgians want to push through a much broader agenda than the more cautious countries Britain, Ireland, the Nordics would have liked.
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With luck, the Nordics will come up with a model that is a little less Scandinavian, but a lot more alluring.
And along with the UK, the Nordics have been the loudest supporters of free trade and open markets in the European Union.
Other corners of the Nordics are getting interested in cross-border ties too.
That's all the more true because Europe's governments have been remarkably timid, compared with the Nordics, in exploiting another avenue to growth structural reform.
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This decade's reform drive, impressive as it has sometimes been, has left intact practices that keep unemployment high and threaten the Nordics' hard-won budgetary stability.
The second risk is that the Nordics will let slip a golden opportunity to reform welfare and roll back the state's interference in the private sector.
Like the other Nordics, they also have a generous welfare system, but one more modest than on the Nordic mainland and they have recently been trimming it back.
To do it they need to reduce the bureaucratic regulation of life, clear the government out of the productive parts of the economy, do as the Nordics do.
But then the Finns, like other Nordics, have high standards.
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We can have a classically liberal economy without lots of redistribution, like Hong Kong perhaps, and we can have a classically liberal economy with lots of redistribution, like the Nordics.
Wii U will offer Netflix, Hulu and Amazon streaming video services for the US and I fully expect them to cater for territorial tastes in other key markets, such as iPlayer for the UK or Viaplay for the Nordics.
Since not even the equality-conscious Nordics have yet managed to get rid of the employment gap altogether, it seems unlikely that gains on this scale will be realised in the foreseeable future, if ever, but there is certainly scope for improvement in some rich countries and even more in emerging markets.
But maybe the difference in American and Swedish obesity is purely cultural in nature: maybe those austere, disciplined Nordics know not to gorge themselves at the government trough despite the fact that their welfare state is ludicrously more lavish than anything on offer in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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