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

• 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. 

Ämnesord

Match industry  -- Sweden -- History. (LCSH)

Commercial criminals  -- Sweden -- Biography. (LCSH)

Swindlers and swindling  -- Sweden -- Biography. (LCSH)

Capitalists and financiers  -- Sweden -- Biography. (LCSH)

Businesspeople  -- Sweden -- Biography. (LCSH)

International finance  -- Corrupt practices -- History. (LCSH)

Industrimän  -- Sverige -- 1900-talet (sao)

Tändsticksindustri  -- historia -- Sverige -- 1900-talet (sao)

Genre

Biografier  (saogf)

Personnamn

Kreuger, Ivar, 1880-1932.

Institutionsnamn

Svenska tändsticks AB

Kreuger & Toll

Sveriges riksbank

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Lz Biografi: särskilda personer

Klassifikation

HD9660.M473 (LCC)

364.1680924 (DDC)

Lz Kreuger, Ivar (kssb/8)