The Match King
Ivar Kreuger, the Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
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At the height of the roaring '20s, Swedish emigre Ivar Kreuger made a fortune
raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick ...
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dailymail published on Tue, 21 Sep 2010
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By the end of the 1920s, a Swedish businessman named Ivar Kreuger controlled most of the world’s safety-match production, as well as important swaths of the mining, timber, telephony, media, banking and construction industries. He was one of the ric ... (read full critics)
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- Others 288 Pages
- ISBN-10: 1586488120
- ISBN-13: 9781586488123
- Publisher: Public Affairs
- Pub date: Mar 09, 2010
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How the king of cons met his match
Last updated at 6:28 PM on 13th March 2009 Comments ( 0) Add to My Stories A time of financial folly and fraud, it is instructive to look back and see how history repeats itself. People are calling Bernie Madoff a rip-off merchant on an unprecedented ... (read full critics)