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by nolta 15 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivar_Kreuger#B-shares
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> Kreuger's financial empire has been described by one biographer as a Ponzi scheme... Another biographer called Kreuger a "genius and swindler", and John Kenneth Galbraith wrote that he was the "Leonardo of larcenists".