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Simply put, without Ivar Kreuger, modern securities regulation and litigation would not exist.
Frank Partnoy • The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
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The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
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Bill O'Neill • Interesting Stories for Curious People
Furthermore, the company’s CEO hired the best of the best: an accomplished CRO from Goldman Sachs. But the CRO was often asked to leave meetings with the firm’s executive committee when risk-related issues were under consideration. By 2007, Lehman’s leadership stopped inviting the CRO to executive committee meetings altogether. The CRO was rendered
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Determined to protect his newfound wealth, Berlekamp bought top-rated municipal bonds, but a rumor in the spring of 1986 that Congress might remove the tax-free status of those investments crushed their value. Congress never acted, but the experience taught Berlekamp that investors sometimes act irrationally.