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Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s “60 Minutes,” recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

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Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s “60 Minutes,” recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

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Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s “60 Minutes,” recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

]]> 2009 3 1 false Sun Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 19:53:17 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 20:03:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 71021656 881570 6350515 1586487434 9781586487430 15 <![CDATA[The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6350515-the-match-king 3.28 32 Yet after Kreuger’s suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged. Driven by success to adopt ever-more perilous practices, Kreuger had turned to shell companies in tax havens, fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today’s markets. When his Wall Street empire collapsed, millions went bankrupt.

Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s “60 Minutes,” recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

]]> 2009 4 0 false Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 20:47:13 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 22:20:45 -0700 2009 also made profitable businesses and invented many financial transaction types until his snowball of greed caught up with him...more...]]> 63889556 359114 6350515 1586487434 9781586487430 15 <![CDATA[The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6350515-the-match-king 3.28 32 Yet after Kreuger’s suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged. Driven by success to adopt ever-more perilous practices, Kreuger had turned to shell companies in tax havens, fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today’s markets. When his Wall Street empire collapsed, millions went bankrupt.

Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s “60 Minutes,” recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

]]> 2009 2 0 false Fri Jul 17 13:28:39 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 13:32:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 74046950 743537 6350515 1586487434 9781586487430 15 <![CDATA[The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6350515-the-match-king 3.28 32 Yet after Kreuger’s suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged. Driven by success to adopt ever-more perilous practices, Kreuger had turned to shell companies in tax havens, fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today’s markets. When his Wall Street empire collapsed, millions went bankrupt.

Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s “60 Minutes,” recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

]]> 2009 3 0 false Fri Oct 09 22:51:42 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 22:53:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 61193137 919342 6350515 1586487434 9781586487430 15 <![CDATA[The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6350515-the-match-king 3.28 32 Yet after Kreuger’s suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged. Driven by success to adopt ever-more perilous practices, Kreuger had turned to shell companies in tax havens, fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today’s markets. When his Wall Street empire collapsed, millions went bankrupt.

Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s “60 Minutes,” recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

]]> 2009 3 0 false Fri Jun 26 10:46:32 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 10:48:41 -0700 2009 69686058 566049 6350515 1586487434 9781586487430 15 <![CDATA[The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6350515-the-match-king 3.28 32 Yet after Kreuger’s suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged. Driven by success to adopt ever-more perilous practices, Kreuger had turned to shell companies in tax havens, fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today’s markets. When his Wall Street empire collapsed, millions went bankrupt.

Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s “60 Minutes,” recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

]]> 2009 3 0 false Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 09:41:37 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 08:37:47 -0700 2009
it seems no matter how many times people get ripped off by a financial genius and offers of high returns that's too good to be true, it keeps happening
I guess greed knows no bounds or era]]> 70181215 987827 6350515 1586487434 9781586487430 15 <![CDATA[The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6350515-the-match-king 3.28 32 Yet after Kreuger’s suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged. Driven by success to adopt ever-more perilous practices, Kreuger had turned to shell companies in tax havens, fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today’s markets. When his Wall Street empire collapsed, millions went bankrupt.

Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s “60 Minutes,” recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

]]> 2009 4 0 false Sat Sep 05 15:09:01 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 15:09:56 -0700 2009 64268047 1237879 6350515 1586487434 9781586487430 15 <![CDATA[The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6350515-the-match-king 3.28 32 Yet after Kreuger’s suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged. Driven by success to adopt ever-more perilous practices, Kreuger had turned to shell companies in tax havens, fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today’s markets. When his Wall Street empire collapsed, millions went bankrupt.

Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s “60 Minutes,” recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

]]> 2009 4 0 false Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 15:03:34 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 12:15:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 57267564 1765874 6350515 1586487434 9781586487430 15 <![CDATA[The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6350515-the-match-king 3.28 32 Yet after Kreuger’s suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged. Driven by success to adopt ever-more perilous practices, Kreuger had turned to shell companies in tax havens, fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today’s markets. When his Wall Street empire collapsed, millions went bankrupt.

Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s “60 Minutes,” recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

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The book was a nice read and the detail was incredible. But alas that detail was a bit much for me.]]> 57395950 1528912 6350515 1586487434 9781586487430 15 <![CDATA[The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6350515-the-match-king 3.28 32 Yet after Kreuger’s suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged. Driven by success to adopt ever-more perilous practices, Kreuger had turned to shell companies in tax havens, fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today’s markets. When his Wall Street empire collapsed, millions went bankrupt.

Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s “60 Minutes,” recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

]]> 2009 4 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 12:58:32 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 09:14:35 -0700 2009 56071559 899549 6350515 1586487434 9781586487430 15 <![CDATA[The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6350515-the-match-king 3.28 32 Yet after Kreuger’s suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged. Driven by success to adopt ever-more perilous practices, Kreuger had turned to shell companies in tax havens, fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today’s markets. When his Wall Street empire collapsed, millions went bankrupt.

Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s “60 Minutes,” recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

]]> 2009 0 0 false Thu May 14 11:15:19 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 11:15:44 -0700 2009 59580731 326171 6350515 1586487434 9781586487430 15 <![CDATA[The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6350515-the-match-king 3.28 32 Yet after Kreuger’s suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged. Driven by success to adopt ever-more perilous practices, Kreuger had turned to shell companies in tax havens, fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today’s markets. When his Wall Street empire collapsed, millions went bankrupt.

Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s “60 Minutes,” recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

]]> 2009 3 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 21:11:41 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 07:56:51 -0700 2009 52172056 1846606 6350515 1586487434 9781586487430 15 <![CDATA[The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6350515-the-match-king 3.28 32 Yet after Kreuger’s suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged. Driven by success to adopt ever-more perilous practices, Kreuger had turned to shell companies in tax havens, fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today’s markets. When his Wall Street empire collapsed, millions went bankrupt.

Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s “60 Minutes,” recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

]]> 2009 4 0 false Tue May 12 09:46:10 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 06:17:45 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 09:46:10 -0700 2009 56556756 2333115 6350515 1586487434 9781586487430 15 <![CDATA[The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6350515-the-match-king 3.28 32 Yet after Kreuger’s suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged. Driven by success to adopt ever-more perilous practices, Kreuger had turned to shell companies in tax havens, fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today’s markets. When his Wall Street empire collapsed, millions went bankrupt.

Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s “60 Minutes,” recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

]]> 2009 3 0 false Mon May 18 19:01:55 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 19:07:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 82201394 3069900 6350515 1586487434 9781586487430 15 <![CDATA[The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6350515-the-match-king 3.28 32 Yet after Kreuger’s suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged. Driven by success to adopt ever-more perilous practices, Kreuger had turned to shell companies in tax havens, fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today’s markets. When his Wall Street empire collapsed, millions went bankrupt.

Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s “60 Minutes,” recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

]]> 2009 0 0 false Sun Dec 27 13:47:05 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 27 13:47:05 -0800 2009 81483408 3025556 6350515 1586487434 9781586487430 15 <![CDATA[The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6350515-the-match-king 3.28 32 Yet after Kreuger’s suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged. Driven by success to adopt ever-more perilous practices, Kreuger had turned to shell companies in tax havens, fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today’s markets. When his Wall Street empire collapsed, millions went bankrupt.

Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s “60 Minutes,” recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

]]> 2009 0 0 false Sat Dec 19 09:46:17 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 19 09:46:17 -0800 2009 81417797 2581437 6350515 1586487434 9781586487430 15 <![CDATA[The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6350515-the-match-king 3.28 32 Yet after Kreuger’s suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged. Driven by success to adopt ever-more perilous practices, Kreuger had turned to shell companies in tax havens, fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today’s markets. When his Wall Street empire collapsed, millions went bankrupt.

Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s “60 Minutes,” recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

]]> 2009 0 0 false Fri Dec 18 13:03:45 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 18 13:03:51 -0800 2009 81252501 911028 6350515 1586487434 9781586487430 15 <![CDATA[The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6350515-the-match-king 3.28 32 Yet after Kreuger’s suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged. Driven by success to adopt ever-more perilous practices, Kreuger had turned to shell companies in tax havens, fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today’s markets. When his Wall Street empire collapsed, millions went bankrupt.

Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s “60 Minutes,” recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

]]> 2009 0 0 false Wed Dec 16 19:24:38 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 16 19:24:38 -0800 2009 81095801 3000633 6350515 1586487434 9781586487430 15 <![CDATA[The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6350515-the-match-king 3.28 32 Yet after Kreuger’s suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged. Driven by success to adopt ever-more perilous practices, Kreuger had turned to shell companies in tax havens, fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today’s markets. When his Wall Street empire collapsed, millions went bankrupt.

Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s “60 Minutes,” recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

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