02118nam a22003617a 4500 BJBSDDR 20260526155813.0 ta 260514s2009 nyu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781586487430 (hbk.) 1586487434 (hbk.) eng DLC eng B HD 9660 K92P 2009 Partnoy, Frank 28559 The match king : Ivar Kreuger, the financial genius behind a century of Wall Street scandals / Frank Partnoy. New York : PublicAffairs, 2009 xiii, 272 pages ; 24 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages [230]-235) and index. Coming to American Getting to Lee Higg The speech Trouble at home The green eye shade Poland first Le Boom The match palace A weekend in Germany One last chance Coming back to America Death in the air Greatness? Coda A nearly century-old Wall Street scandal rooted in unscrupulous investment banking and derivative hedge funds techniques developed by one man--Swedish émigré and notorious charmer 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. After the collapse of 1929, he continued to make money. Then in 1932 he suddenly committed suicide. 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 Kreuger, Ivar, 1880-1932 48665 Svenska tändsticks AB 48666 Historia Kreuger & Toll 48667 Historia Sveriges riksbank 48668 Historia Industria del fósforo Historia 48670 Suecia Estafadores 2846 Suecia Delincuentes Biografías 27192 Suecia Capitalistas y financieros 5067 Suecia Finanzas internacionales Prácticas corruptas 48671 lcc BK cmc 127103 127103 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2026-05-14 0 B HD 9660 K92P 2009 00000199802 2026-05-14 15:43:00 1 2026-05-14 BK