TY  - BOOK
N2  - Frank Partnoy delivers a thrilling history lesson about an era and a nearly century-old Wall Street scandal rooted in unscrupulous investment banking and derivative hedge funds techniques developed by one man--Ivar Kreuger. Kreuger made his fortune in the 1920s by raising money from American investors to lend to European governments in exchange for match monopolies. Then he suddenly committed suicide in 1932. As his fraudulent schemes unraveled in the wake of his death, the so-called "Kreuger crash" began, bankrupting millions and leading to the enactment of the securities laws of 1933 and 1934.
AB  - Frank Partnoy delivers a thrilling history lesson about an era and a nearly century-old Wall Street scandal rooted in unscrupulous investment banking and derivative hedge funds techniques developed by one man--Ivar Kreuger. Kreuger made his fortune in the 1920s by raising money from American investors to lend to European governments in exchange for match monopolies. Then he suddenly committed suicide in 1932. As his fraudulent schemes unraveled in the wake of his death, the so-called "Kreuger crash" began, bankrupting millions and leading to the enactment of the securities laws of 1933 and 1934.
T1  - The match king :Ivar Kreuger, the financial genius behind a century of Wall Street scandals /
DA  - c2009.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Partnoy, Frank.
ET  - 1st ed.
CN  - HD9660.M473
CN  - HD9660.M473
PB  - PublicAffairs,
PP  - New York :
PY  - c2009.
ID  - 329782
KW  - Match industry
KW  - Commercial criminals
KW  - Swindlers and swindling
KW  - Capitalists and financiers
KW  - Businesspeople
KW  - International finance
SN  - 9781586487430
SN  - 1586487434
TI  - The match king :Ivar Kreuger, the financial genius behind a century of Wall Street scandals /
ER  -