The match king : Ivar Kreuger, the financial genius behind a century of Wall Street scandals / Frank Partnoy.
2009
HD9660.M473 S864 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
The match king : Ivar Kreuger, the financial genius behind a century of Wall Street scandals / Frank Partnoy.
Author
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781586487430
1586487434
1586487434
Published
New York : PublicAffairs, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
Description
xiii, 272 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number
HD9660.M473 S864 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.1680924 B
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-235) and index.
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