Enron

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  • Grayson apologizes for "K street whore" comment

    The Florida Democrat says he's sorry for a derogatory remark about an advisor to Ben Bernanke
  • Goldman Sachs CEO: If only we'd listened to Enron

    Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling showed Wall Street how it was broken. Their response? La, la, la -- we can't hear you!
  • The corporate financiers are wrong

    Would they please shut up about the wonders of an unfettered free market? It's taxpayers who are paying the price for their greed -- again.
  • Bedtime for "Gonzo"

    Alex Gibney talks about his Oscar-winning "Taxi to the Dark Side" and his new look at Hunter S. Thompson, American hero. (Plus: Audio podcast.)
  • Rep. Alan Grayson goes a comment too far

    Going on a fringe radio show to call a public official a "whore"? Stay classy, congressman
  • Bear-Stearns recalls the glory days of Enron

    How do you make a company disappear? Easy: Just sic the news media on 'em.
  • Eliot Spitzer's monumental fall from grace

    In the post-dot-com, post-Enron era, the attorney general of New York landed some uppercuts on the high and mighty. But now he's the one lying on the mat. By his own hand.
  • Why did Gonzales resign?

    Without Karl Rove around to give him his orders, and with the investigations closing in, "Fredo" had nowhere to turn.
  • The long arms of Enron reach beyond the grave

    The Senate's report on the rise and fall of the hedge fund Amaranth is a case study in the dangers of unregulated markets. And Enron is largely to blame
  • Drinking the invisible hand

    The global water industry sees a profitable opportunity in drought and global warming.
  • Ken Lay, lynching victim?

    At a memorial service for the Enron chairman, a local pastor equates Lay's prosection to the gruesome murder of an African-American man.
  • Kenneth Lay: Not the first to cheat the Big House

    Experts say the stress of federal prosecution can lead to disease and suicide, especially for the well-heeled likes of "Kenny Boy."
  • Enron changed nothing

    In the breeding grounds of executive crime, greed still rules. The only lesson corporate America has learned is how to blame everybody else.
  • Who gets blamed for Enron?

    Why Enron is George Bush's scandal, not Bill Clinton's.
  • Lay and Skilling: Guilty, guilty, guilty!

    The people have spoken. Enron's executives are criminals. Who's next?
  • Lay, Skilling convicted in Enron case

    Skilling is acquitted on charges related to insider trading.
  • China, illegal immigration and Enron

    Living the American dream with Ken Lay.
  • Enron: Bad apple or poisoned orchard

    Will Ken Lay be found guilty? Objection, your honor, that question is irrelevant!
  • Bottom of the ninth for Enron

    Four months from a verdict on runaway capitalist buffoonery.
  • Ken Lay: I'm a victim of prosecutorial terrorism

    The former Enron chairman spins his story as his trial date nears.
  • The Cox guarding the henhouse

    If Rep. Chris Cox is confirmed as chairman of the SEC, corporate wrongdoers in the Bernie Ebbers mold will be able to rest easier.
  • "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"

    This movie about America's biggest corporate collapse is part of a new breed of film, more agitprop than documentary.
  • Idiots in the boardroom

    Kurt Eichenwald's absorbing new book offers us a look inside Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling's thoughts and private conversations as Enron sank. But it doesn't tell us if they were sinners or just fools -- or what the Enron saga says about American business.
  • Uncle Sam's extreme makeover

    There's a bold new spirit in America: Downtrodden workers slaving harder than ever to build a better life for members of the investor class!
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