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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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Book/TextUse in library JBE 15-565Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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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
  • Bjorgolfsson, Thor
  • Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009)
  • 2008 - 2009
  • Billionaires > Iceland > Biography
  • Businesspeople > Iceland > Biography
  • Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
  • Financial crises > Iceland
  • Billionaires
  • Businesspeople
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Financial crises
  • Iceland > Economic conditions > 21st century
  • Iceland
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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