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Billions to bust - and back : how I made, lost and rebuilt a fortune, and what I learned on the way

Title: Billions to bust - and back : how I made, lost and rebuilt a fortune, and what I learned on the way / Thor Bjorgolfsson with Andrew Cave.
Author: Bjorgolfsson, Thor
Publication: London : Profile Books, 2014.

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Additional Authors

Cave, Andrew

Description

xi, 244 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plates; 25 cm

Summary

After 10 years establishing his financial empire with alco-pops and beer in the lawless 'Wild East' of newly-capitalist Russia in the 1990s, Thor Bjorgolfsson moved on to merging, floating, spinning off and privatising businesses. On his 40th birthday, and worth 3.5 billion, he was sitting on top of the world. But when financial meltdown hit Iceland in October 2008, Landsbanki crashed and burned, taking Bjorgolfsson with it. Within 12 months he had lost 98.5% of his wealth - and was treated as a scapegoat in his native country.

Subject

Genre/Form

Autobiographies.
Biography.

Note

Includes index.

Call Number

JBE 15-565

ISBN

9781781253694
1781253692
9781782831167 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

898058553

Author

Bjorgolfsson, Thor, author.

Title

Billions to bust - and back : how I made, lost and rebuilt a fortune, and what I learned on the way / Thor Bjorgolfsson with Andrew Cave.

Publisher

London : Profile Books, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

2008 - 2009

Added Author

Cave, Andrew, author.

Research Call Number

JBE 15-565

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