Enron

The corporate financiers are wrong 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.
  • 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!
  • 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.)
  • Why did Gonzales resign?

    Without Karl Rove around to give him his orders, and with the investigations closing in, "Fredo" had nowhere to turn.
  • 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.
  • 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!
  • Oh, the stories he could tell!

    There'll be no more White House sleepovers, if indicted Bush crony Kenneth Lay decides to tell all.
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