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Index - News - 1992 - EMU - Cataclysm - Economics - Wall Street - US Dollar Stopping a Financial Crisis, the Swedish Way A vain effort to defend Sweden’s currency, the krona, caused overnight interest rates to spike at one point to 500 percent. The Swedish economy contracted for two consecutive years after a long expansion, and unemployment, at 3 percent in 1990, quadrupled in three years. After a series of bank failures and ad hoc solutions, the moment of truth arrived in September 1992, when the government of Prime Minister Carl Bildt decided it was time to clear the decks. "Enligt vår uppfattning stod det finansiella systemet i Sverige inför en kollaps den 24 september 1992." Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the opposition center-left, Mr. Bildt’s conservative government announced that the Swedish state would guarantee all bank deposits and creditors of the nation’s 114 banks Rolf Englund: Carl Bildt: |