Ivar Kreuger: The Bernie Madoff of Sweden, And The Founder of Zyn

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I used to watch this channel all the time but then they posted a very poorly researched video on Tesla that had false information so it made me unable to trust any of the other content.

Aw man, are you using AI art? It's sort of disappointing. I prefer actual historical photos, rather than fuzzy recreations of them with horses hitched backwards and infinite columns on buildings

Lighters were invented 3 years before matches in 1823

The AI images are lame.

Please stop using AI images. They look like shit

keep using ai images when beneficial

This documentary contains too many errors.

use AI to upscale grainy low res pics and stop using AI to generate these silly cartoonish pictures

You used A.I images. Un-subscribed...

20% dividend?
Huge red flag

Smh shit never changes. Damn near 100 years ago and people still let their greed beat out the most basic axiom ; if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

"Earnings from various transactions" legit sounds like the predecessor to Nortel's "Earnings from Operations" shenanigans that they used to obscure their unprofitability lol.

They could not get Ivar so they railroaded his bother instead. Ponzi isn't really the case more like bad business practicess then the world stopped using matches as much Dude ran out of money

Everything Swedish is getting sold, its fucking sad.

Emperor's New Clothes

You are very bade informed.Tell instead who killed him and stole all off his companies

This is difficult to listen I don,t konow why but it is. Like robot reading.

You don't seem to have detail knowledge of the Swedish match business. It was based on a Swedish invention called the "safety match", that was patented. This style of match is still called "Swedish Matches" in England, "Allumettes Suédoises" in France, and "Schwedenhölzer" in Germany.
Other contemporary matches used a different chemical process, and could ignite against any material, while the Swedish one only ignited against the special pad on the matchbox. A lot of devastating fires were started with the old style of match self igniting, and lighting the whole box on fire. During this period entire cities could go up in flames. This made spreading of the safety match a matter of public safety. Think spaghetti westerns where they light the match on their cowboy boots, or the beard stubble if they are badasses...
Saying he was the founder of Zyn is also odd, since it is a product that didn't exist during his lifetime, it is also a brand, and not a company. The company is Swedish Match, which he was the founder of...

Lies

Funny enough The lighter was actually invented before the match in early 1800a atleast it was more used than the common match. Until the early 1900s

45 mill kroner is like 4.5 mill euroes today.
Was the kroner that more in value?

Ivar Kreuger is exactly the opposite of this character murder piece.

Yup, got shot 2 times and was labeled as suicide. Just a tip, look at who owns Ericsson today ;)

The story of Ivar Kreuger is well known here in sweden and this is far from true! One of the worst documentaries i´ve ever seen!

This reminds me of Renaissance Technologies… nobody knows how they do it. Everyone simply assumes they are geniuses…

He was murdered and robbed since he was a descent man. Who stole it? The same who stole Nobel dynamite.

He sold MATCHES.

What building is it at 4.50 m?

Sorry buddy, but your video is completely off the mark. Ivar Kreuger was the greatest business leader Sweden has ever had. The claim that he was insolvent is pure disinformation—his companies were doing very well.

There is a book by Nikola Majstrovic. His book, which is about 10 years old, "The Truth Behind the Kreuger Crash," is the result of 12 years of searching for the answer to the question of what lies behind the so-called "Kreuger crash" and the alleged "suicide" that Ivar Kreuger supposedly committed. Using new, previously unknown documents and testimonies, the book sheds new light and provides answers that refute the currently accepted official "truth" about the collapse of the Kreuger empire and Ivar Kreuger's death.

Reading the book, it becomes clear that Kreuger was murdered and that many financial elites were involved in the plot, including the Swedish financial giants Wallenberg, Bonnier, Stenbeck, as well as JP Morgan and even Stalin. Upon his death, it was these families—Wallenberg, Bonnier, Stenbeck, and others—who took over his companies, and their wealth still endures today because of Kreuger's businesses.

See if you can find the book in English and correct your information!

He was not controled by the you know who's.....so he ended up like he did. Shalom !!

Maybe there’s more to the story of this man, after his mysterious death his empire was mostly taken over by the Wallenberg family.
Many claim foul play was involved in his death.

HE WAS KILLED BY WALLENBERG-FAMILY !!!!

A lot of lies and Wall-Enberg propaganda in this video!

The most important question: who took control of his companies when he "died"?

Two famous names come to mind. The book "så fälldes en svensk gigant". av Nikola Majstrovic go into detail of all the questions around this case. Unfortunately just in swedish, as far as i know.

Shoddy research and many factually incorrect statements made in this video. Ericsson has been owned by the swedish banking family wallenberg since the kreuger crash. They bought up kreugers empire for pennies on the dollar after having kreuger killed and spreading rumours about his numbers being false. They bought up his companies that gave them access to a monopoly on the telecom infrastructure and powergrid in 184 countries.

Prior to his "suicide" the wallenbergs and among many others olof aschberg openly conspired to shorting his companies and having him killed...

This video is bullshit, Ivar was killed and did not kill himself. Follow what happend to his companys after his death

Come è patetico che semplificate sempre ogni cosa all'epoca in Europa si costruivano case di tipo Vittoriano Ma questo sarà successo in Inghilterra No in Italia per esempio di certo non si costruivano case vittoriane c**

Lighters were invented in 1823 before matches!

You should read more about Ivar Kruger this information is not the truth Ivar was a good man and was murdered in France

The story you tell about Ivar Kreuger is false, you got the history all wrong. He was murded. Look after which people suddenly got the hold of his Companys..

Ericsson one of the biggest?
Network in 184 countrys, own internet etc etc=total control for there owners =Wallenberg.can't go higher to find deep states control

The murder of Ivar Kreuger is the biggest scandal in Swedish history. If they'd let him live, he would have prevented WWII with the loan he planned to give to Germany. This man helped many nations worldwide with affordable loans at low rates to stabilize their economies. This angered the real banks who couldn't earn high interest rates on their given loans when Ivar Kreuger stepped in and helped these countries pay off their debts. Ivar created hundreds of thousands of jobs worldwide with his companies. He was a genius and wanted to create peace everywhere but instead, they took his life, made him into a villain, blamed all their faults on him, and finally cut his empire into pieces and took over it for pennies. In the meantime, they let the ordinary folks pay for all of this with their jobs being lost and their stocks becoming worthless while they took over Ivars' vast empire of companies and became stunningly rich.

As a Sweden only knowing about Ivar Kreuger through pop culture, my knowledge was that he was involved in Sweden's big industry of safety matches and the Kreuger-Crash. Now I know a lot more.

One of the main mechanics of how he was able to keep this up for so long was that he "innovated" stocks with less voting rights. Called B-stock in Sweden. This meant that he could sell as much stock as he wanted and still retain control of all the companies he owned. Which he did.

Before Krueger, there was just one kind of stock where anyone owning stock would have equal voting power as another stock-owner.

Apparently Wall Street thought this "innovation" in Finance was brilliant, and kept it to this day :)

There's also "Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget" (Swedish Cellulose Joint-Stock Company) which Krueger founded to unite the resources of ten Swedish forestry companies. That company today is the largest private owner of forest land in Europe and one of the world's largest makers of hygenic paper products. They also happen to own Procter & Gamble's former European operations.

Matches. Who’d’a thunk.

Ivar was not a crook, more a reckless visionary, his fault was not seeing the signs, or refuse to believe the signs. But yes he was to blame for a lot.

Was the first guy the same religion as the other two

Bernie Madoff had a lucrative market making business but his investment firm was the ponzi scheme.