TY  - BOOK
AU  - Partnoy,Frank
TI  - The match king : : Ivar Kreuger, the financial genius behind a century of Wall Street scandals 
SN  - 9781586487430 (hbk.)
AV  - B HD 9660 K92P 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York : 
PB  - PublicAffairs, 
KW  - Kreuger, Ivar, 
KW  - Svenska tändsticks AB
KW  - Historia
KW  - Kreuger & Toll
KW  - Sveriges riksbank
KW  - Industria del fósforo
KW  - Suecia
KW  - Estafadores
KW  - Delincuentes
KW  - Biografías
KW  - Capitalistas y financieros
KW  - Finanzas internacionales
KW  - Prácticas corruptas
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -