The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
- ISBN 10: 1586487434
- ISBN 13: 9781586487430
- Author: Frank Partnoy
- Edition: Hardcover
- Release: 2009-04-13
- Format: Hardcover (288 pages)
- List Price: $26.95
- Tags: Business & Investing, Economics, Economic History, Professional & Technical, Accounting & Finance, Finance
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Book Description: At the height of the roaring ’20s, Swedish émigré Ivar Kreuger made a fortune raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick monopolies. His enterprise was a rare success story throughout the Great Depression.Yet after Kreuger’s suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged. Driven by success to adopt ever-more perilous practices, Kreuger had turned to shell companies in tax havens, fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today’s markets. When his Wall Street empire collapsed, millions went bankrupt.Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s “60 Minutes,” 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 market.
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