At the height of the roaring \'20s, Swedish emigre Ivar Kreuger made a fortune raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick monopolies.
He created a raft of innovative Financial products-- many of them precursors to instr.
Yet after his suicide in 1932, it became clear that Kreuger was not all he seemed: evidence surfaced of fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery.
His enterprise was a rare success story throughout the Great Depression.
At the height of the roaring \'20s, Swedish emigre Ivar Kreuger made a fortune raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick monopolies