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The match king Ivar Kreuger, the financial genius behind a century of Wall Street scandals

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780786741540 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0786741546 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1586487434
ISBN: 9781586487430
ISBN: 9781586488123
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (xiii, 272 p.)
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, c2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-235) and index.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.