Showbiz is One of the most flamboyant figures in the recent history of Belgium is not more. Jean-Pierre Van Rossem (73) was a brilliant economist, a beursgoeroe, a con man, a politician with a big mouth and so much more. At his peak, he was ‘billionaire’ with other people’s money, but he ended up bitter and say poor. “I’m a bastard. But an interesting bastard.”
‘velocity of money’, as was the thesis of Jean-Pierre Van Rossem end of the 60 submitted to the university of Ghent. The economist won the ‘International trade fair of Flanders’ and would the theory of his thesis, his life in the practice. That he added the money rolling was an understatement. His endowment to the university, he knew early on, to market, by to the conveyor belt dissertations and theses to write in the name of dignified offspring of wealthy men. That filled his wallet, but made him also realize that honesty is a relative concept. By the recognition Of Rossem received for his own trading, he was allowed in the U.S. go study with nobel prize winner Lawrence Klein.
