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The monopoly-for-loan idea certainly was ingenious.
Frank Partnoy • The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
Simply put, without Ivar Kreuger, modern securities regulation and litigation would not exist.
Frank Partnoy • The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
Fisher wrote in his book Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits:
Gautam Baid • The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning, Revised and Updated (Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing Series)
Morgan’s famous testimony to Congress that character came before money or property.
Frank Partnoy • The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
In 1938, John Burr Williams published a book called The Theory of Investment Value, a seminal articulation of the usefulness
Michael J. Mauboussin • Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns, Revised and Updated (Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing Series)
Parag Parikh’s book Value Investing and Behavioral Finance.
Gautam Baid • The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning, Revised and Updated (Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing Series)
The lesson of Ivar Kreuger is not that his businesses were illegal. It is that they were alegal.
Frank Partnoy • The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
Given these facts - and they were facts - Berning was reluctant to accuse such a reputable man of anything. He told himself Garanta wasn’t important. It couldn’t be.