The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, the Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals Partnoy FrankPaperback
The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, the Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals Partnoy FrankPaperback At the height of the roaring '20s, Swedish emigre Ivar Kreuger made a fortune…
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The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, the Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals Partnoy FrankPaperback
At the height of the roaring '20s, Swedish emigre Ivar Kreuger made a fortune raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick monopolies. Yet after his suicide in 1932, it became clear that Kreuger was not all he seemed: evidence surfaced of fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. His enterprise was a rare success story throughout the Great Depression.
In this gripping financial biography, Frank Partnoy recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered He created a raft of innovative financial products-- many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today's markets.
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