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.
By Joe Conason Sep 19, 2008
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The Florida Democrat says he's sorry for a derogatory remark about an advisor to Ben Bernanke
By Alex Koppelman
October 27, 2009
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Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling showed Wall Street how it was broken. Their response? La, la, la -- we can't hear you!
By Andrew Leonard
April 7, 2009
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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.)
By Andrew O'Hehir
July 4, 2008
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Without Karl Rove around to give him his orders, and with the investigations closing in, "Fredo" had nowhere to turn.
By Sidney Blumenthal
August 27, 2007
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Going on a fringe radio show to call a public official a "whore"? Stay classy, congressman
By Gabriel Winant
October 27, 2009
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How do you make a company disappear? Easy: Just sic the news media on 'em.
By Andrew Leonard
April 3, 2008
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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.
By Andrew Leonard
March 10, 2008
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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
By Andrew Leonard
July 6, 2007
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The global water industry sees a profitable opportunity in drought and global warming.
By Andrew Leonard
April 4, 2007
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At a memorial service for the Enron chairman, a local pastor equates Lay's prosection to the gruesome murder of an African-American man.
By Tim Grieve
July 13, 2006
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Experts say the stress of federal prosecution can lead to disease and suicide, especially for the well-heeled likes of "Kenny Boy."
By Mark Schone
July 6, 2006
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In the breeding grounds of executive crime, greed still rules. The only lesson corporate America has learned is how to blame everybody else.
By Gary Weiss
May 31, 2006
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Why Enron is George Bush's scandal, not Bill Clinton's.
By Andrew Leonard
May 26, 2006
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The people have spoken. Enron's executives are criminals. Who's next?
By Andrew Leonard
May 25, 2006
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Skilling is acquitted on charges related to insider trading.
By Tim Grieve
May 25, 2006
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Living the American dream with Ken Lay.
By Andrew Leonard
May 2, 2006
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Will Ken Lay be found guilty? Objection, your honor, that question is irrelevant!
By Andrew Leonard
February 10, 2006
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Four months from a verdict on runaway capitalist buffoonery.
By Andrew Leonard
February 8, 2006
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The former Enron chairman spins his story as his trial date nears.
By Tim Grieve
December 14, 2005
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If Rep. Chris Cox is confirmed as chairman of the SEC, corporate wrongdoers in the Bernie Ebbers mold will be able to rest easier.
By Judd Legum
July 16, 2005
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This movie about America's biggest corporate collapse is part of a new breed of film, more agitprop than documentary.
By Andrew O'Hehir
April 21, 2005
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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.
By Andrew Leonard
March 15, 2005
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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!
By Joyce McGreevy
March 12, 2005
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There'll be no more White House sleepovers, if indicted Bush crony Kenneth Lay decides to tell all.
By Robert Bryce
July 8, 2004