Certified Money Coach For Women In Business Did you know that the value of Icelandic stock multiplied 9 times from 2003 to 2007. stock market, by comparison, was only doubling each year. This country whose economy had been based on the fishing industry for 1,000 years went into investment banking with a vengence. But, when the market crashed in 2008, that began to change. Of course, by then the country's three banks had all collapsed and every man, woman and child in Iceland owed a part of the debt - $330,000 each. There was only one woman in a senior position in an Icelandic bank and in 2006 she quit to start a financial services business entirely with women. Today her company is one of the few profitable financial businesses in Iceland. The message I'm trying to get across here ...