The man who stole Portugal
by Murray Teigh Bloom · first published 1966
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I can't recommend The Man Who Stole Portugal by Murray Teigh Bloom enough. I loved this book. The most curious aspect about all this is that he seems to have had a positive influence on the Portuguese economy. It was a sort of QE. The subsequent…
on “The Portuguese Bank Note Crisis of 1925” ↗…but nowadays especially with StackExchange it's just far better to get the one fragment of information you need in a handy searchable pasteable internet format. (Non-programming book recs: recently The Man Who Stole Portugal (non-fiction, surprisingly relevant to crypto) and The Time Of Gifts (biography, extravagantly written, requires checking wikipedia every 5 dozen words unless you have a really excellent knowledge of…
on “Ask HN: What books do you keep on your desk?” ↗I love books about fraud and The Man Who Stole Portugal by Murray Bloom is one of my favourites. This is also a story about how Artur Alves dos Reis sparked growth by injecting money into the Portuguese economy.
on “Devouring the Heart of Portugal” ↗Terrific book: The Man Who Stole Portugal by Murray Bloom. Tells the details and how he did it. Fun read!
on “The Greatest Counterfeiter (2021)” ↗I recently got hold of the book ("the man who stole portugal") and it's full of tremendous little details, like the notes being delivered by the printers in travelling trunks to the left luggage office of Victoria station. The whole thing relied on William Waterlow…
on “How A Young Woman Followed Two Hackers' Lies to Her Death” ↗That's an excellent book. If you enjoy it, try (hard to find) "The Man Who Stole Portugal".
on “OKRs Are Bullshit” ↗This is a tremendous story; I was first told of it many years ago and it's informed my thinking about authenticity ever since. I recently managed to find a copy of "The Man Who Stole Portugal" to read the whole definitive account with all its absurd details. The total obliviousness of the British printers was key to the whole thing; once they'd been convinced they were dealing with the Right…
on “The Portuguese Bank Note Crisis of 1925” ↗