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Founders: #348 The Financial Genius Behind A Century of Wall Street Scandals: Ivar Kreuger

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[00:00:00] The man whose life forms the basis of this book was a master of investor psychology. The match king had perpetrated the greatest financial fraud in history. The world now saw an epic betrayal. A villain, not a hero. A schemer, not a planner. A destroyer, not a builder. Ivar became the Judas of the financial markets. Ivar's company suffered a similar fate to his body. [00:00:24] Panicked selling reduced them to dust. Less than two weeks after the public learned of Ivar's death, investigators from Price Waterhouse declared that his companies were insolvent. The Swedish committee…

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