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Famous Financial Fiascos by John Train
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    • Product code: 2985
    • ISBN: 0870341200, ISBN13: 9780870341205, 112 pages, paperback
      Published by Fraser Publishing Company on 1995
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    'Delightful; as witty as it is instructive.'
    George Plimpton.

    'Train has done a service to the nation.'
    Adam Smith.

    Contents of Famous Financial Fiascos

    Mr Ponzi And His Scheme

    The Pits: Conti Reads Its Own Ads

    Tulipomania

    The Final Solution To Pruitt-Igoe

    The Kuwait Stock Exchange Explodes

    Government

    The Greener Hills Of Africa: The Groundnuts Scheme

    O More Than Man! The John Law Scandal

    The Great War Loan Conversion

    I.O.S., Or, Cornfield's Follies

    The French Revolutionary Hyperinflation

    Ivar Krueger, The Swedish Match Kind

    The French Panama Canal Company

    The Flameout Of The Technical Analysts

    Whiskey In Mali

    Richard Whitney

    The South Sea Bubble

    The Fine New $6 Million Sydney Opera House

    The Putrefaction Of Juan March

    Afterword

    About John Train

    John Train founded Train Smith Investment Counsel and is the chairman of Montrose Advisors. He has written hundreds of columns for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Forbes magazine, Harvard Magazine, and the Financial Times. His bestselling books include The Craft of Investing, The Midas Touch, The Money Masters and Preserving Capital and Making it Grow.

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