Ivar krueger biography
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THE life and death of Ivar Kreuger provide ample justification for the use of superlatives. Here we had a man acclaimed on all sides as the greatest constructive financial genius of our generation; praised by statesmen and bankers as the apostle of enlightened capitalism in a world tending, in sheer despair, to put ever more faith in communism; a man whose views were quoted by the most distinguished economists in support of their own.
Ivar krueger biography
At his death by his own hand on March 12, a whole world united in doing homage to him. The Economist described his death as a Greek tragedy. ‘Here was no mere gambler on a gigantic scale in the world’s bourses,’ wrote the editor, ‘no mere “promoter” in quest of personal profit at the expense of sucking dry the enterprises to which he laid his hand.
By the death of Kreuger the world has lost a man of great constructive intelligence and wide vision, who planned boldly, yet on a basis which seemed to be protected by carefully devised safeguards, and