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Great Financial Scandals
The Schemers and Scams behind Some of the World's Greatest Financial Disasters
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Product code: 9465 ISBN: 1861051603,
ISBN13: 9781861051608,
318 pages, paperback, published by Robson Books, 1st edition, 1998
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| Description of Great Financial Scandals |
In this fascinating look at the low side of high finance, Sam Jaffa, author of the best-selling Maxwell Stories, uncovers the wheeler-dealers, the schemers and scoundrels behind the greatest financial scams throughout history.
What were the forces that drove Robert Maxwell, said to be the tenth richest person in Britain when his empire collapsed, to purloin vast sums from his company pension schemes? What methods did Swedish 'Match King' Ivar Kreuger use to build up his real and bogus companies? Are human greed, vanity and a craving for power the only motivating factors in these cases?
From the world's first notable financial debacle, the South Sea Bubble scandal of the seventeenth century, through to the Boesky, Guinness, BCCI, Barings and New Era scandals of more recent times, Sam Jaffa weaves a rich and startling web of the deceitful depths to which men and women will sink in search of fast - and big - bucks. |
| Contents of Great Financial Scandals |
Introduction
1. The South Sea Bubble
2. The Reverend Doctor Dodd
3. Rothschild to The Rescue
4. Overend & Gurney
5. The Barings Banking Crisis
6. Baring Finally Fails
7. Ivar Kreuger
8. Horatio Bottomley
9. John Poulson
10. Banco Ambrosiano, The Vatican Bank
11. Savings and Loan
12. 'Greed is All Right...'
13. Barlow Clowes
14. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange
15. The Recruit Scandal
16. The Guiness Affair
17. The Robert Maxwell Affair
18. BCCI
19. Japan
20. Sagawa Kyubin
21. Asil Nadir
22. The Case Of New Era Philanthropy
23. Daiwa
24. Sumitomo Corporation
25. Miscellaneous Mischief |
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