Billions to Bust and Back

Thor Bjorgolfsson is a self-styled adventure capitalist with an addiction to debt and an insatiable appetite for business deals who became Iceland''s first billionaire. After 10 years establishing his financial empire with alco-pops and beer in the lawless ''Wild East'' of newly-capitalist Russia in the 1990s, he moved on to merging, floating, spinning off and privatising businesses from Finland t...