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Author Partnoy, Frank.

Title The match king : Ivar Kreuger, the financial genius behind a century of Wall Street scandals / Frank Partnoy.

Publication Info. New York : PublicAffairs, [2009]
©2009

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Location Call No. Status
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  B KREUGER    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Biographies  BIOG KREUGER, IVAR    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Biographies  B KREUGER    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xiii, 272 pages ; 25 cm
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 Includes bibliographical references (pages [230]-235) and index.
Subject Kreuger, Ivar, 1880-1932.
Svenska tändsticks AB -- History.
Kreuger & Toll -- History.
Sveriges riksbank -- History.
Match industry -- Sweden -- History.
Commercial criminals -- Sweden -- Biography.
Swindlers and swindling -- Sweden -- Biography.
Capitalists and financiers -- Sweden -- Biography.
Businesspeople -- Sweden -- Biography.
International finance -- Corrupt practices -- History.
ISBN 9781586487430
1586487434
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