The Match King
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The Match King
| Full title | The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals |
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| Author | Frank Partnoy |
| Published | 2009 |
| Pages | 288 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Frank Partnoy’s biography of Ivar Kreuger, the Swedish engineer who built a global safety-match monopoly in the 1920s by lending to governments in exchange for concessions, financed through a lattice of holding companies and off-balance-sheet securities American investors could not see through. His 1932 suicide exposed the structure as a fraud, and Partnoy argues the instruments and disclosure gaps he pioneered recur in every scandal since. |
Where I heard about it
- @mastersinvest — on his “2025 Reading … so far” list, August 2025 — the financial-history entry on a list otherwise dominated by founder memoirs. The full 46-title list is on 2025 Reading So Far… (tweet).
Connections
- 2025 Reading So Far… (tweet) — the list this came from.
- Frank Partnoy — the author.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.