The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals by Frank Partnoy

The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals



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The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals Frank Partnoy
Page: 288
ISBN: 9781586488123
Publisher: PublicAffairs

At the Height of the Roaring twenties, Ivar Kreuger was one of the richest men in the world. Through an ingenious plan to sell stakes in foreign matchstick monopolies to American investors flush with cash, he built up a tremendous enterprise, paying impressive dividends to his investors. His company, International Match, was one of the few to survive the Crash of 1929 unscathed. But shortly after Kreuger's death in 1932, it became clear that the great financier was not all he had seemed. Driven by success to adopt ever-more perilous practices, Kreuger had turned to shell companies, tax havens, off-balance sheet accounting, fudged income statements, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products-many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today's markets. The "Kreuger crash" that followed bankrupted millions. In this critically acclaimed biography, Frank Partnoy charts the unlikely rise and fall of this forgotten genius. Through the arc of Kreuger's life, Partnoy casts new light on our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market. MORE EBOOKS:
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