Enron - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/enron/?source=rss&aim=enron en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT The corporate financiers are wrong By Joe Conason Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/09/19/market/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/09/19/market/index.html?source=rss 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 By Alex Koppelman Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/10/27/grayson_apology/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/10/27/grayson_apology/index.html?source=rss 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 By Andrew Leonard Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/04/07/goldman_sachs_and_enron/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/04/07/goldman_sachs_and_enron/index.html?source=rss 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" By Andrew O'Hehir Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/04/gibney_gonzo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/04/gibney_gonzo/index.html?source=rss 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? By Sidney Blumenthal Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/08/27/gonzales_resignation/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/08/27/gonzales_resignation/index.html?source=rss 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 By Gabriel Winant Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/10/27/grayson/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/10/27/grayson/index.html?source=rss Going on a fringe radio show to call a public official a "whore"? Stay classy, congressman Bear-Stearns recalls the glory days of Enron By Andrew Leonard Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/03/bear_stearns_and_enron/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/03/bear_stearns_and_enron/index.html?source=rss How do you make a company disappear? Easy: Just sic the news media on 'em. Eliot Spitzer's monumental fall from grace By Andrew Leonard Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/03/10/spitzer_fall_from_grace/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/03/10/spitzer_fall_from_grace/index.html?source=rss 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 By Andrew Leonard Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/07/06/amaranth/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/07/06/amaranth/index.html?source=rss 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 By Andrew Leonard Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/04/04/water_dereg/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/04/04/water_dereg/index.html?source=rss The global water industry sees a profitable opportunity in drought and global warming. Ken Lay, lynching victim? By Tim Grieve Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/07/13/lay/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/07/13/lay/index.html?source=rss 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 By Mark Schone Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/07/06/lay/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/07/06/lay/index.html?source=rss 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 By Gary Weiss Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/05/31/enron/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/05/31/enron/index.html?source=rss 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? By Andrew Leonard Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/05/26/enron_clinton/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/05/26/enron_clinton/index.html?source=rss Why Enron is George Bush's scandal, not Bill Clinton's. Lay and Skilling: Guilty, guilty, guilty! By Andrew Leonard Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/05/25/guilty/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/05/25/guilty/index.html?source=rss The people have spoken. Enron's executives are criminals. Who's next? Lay, Skilling convicted in Enron case By Tim Grieve Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/05/25/enron/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/05/25/enron/index.html?source=rss Skilling is acquitted on charges related to insider trading. China, illegal immigration and Enron By Andrew Leonard Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/05/02/lay/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/05/02/lay/index.html?source=rss Living the American dream with Ken Lay. Enron: Bad apple or poisoned orchard By Andrew Leonard Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/02/10/enron_2/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/02/10/enron_2/index.html?source=rss Will Ken Lay be found guilty? Objection, your honor, that question is irrelevant! Bottom of the ninth for Enron By Andrew Leonard Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/02/08/enron/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/02/08/enron/index.html?source=rss Four months from a verdict on runaway capitalist buffoonery. Ken Lay: I'm a victim of prosecutorial terrorism By Tim Grieve Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/12/14/lay/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/12/14/lay/index.html?source=rss The former Enron chairman spins his story as his trial date nears. The Cox guarding the henhouse By Judd Legum Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/07/16/cox_at_sec/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/07/16/cox_at_sec/index.html?source=rss 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" By Andrew O'Hehir Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2005/04/21/enron/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2005/04/21/enron/index.html?source=rss This movie about America's biggest corporate collapse is part of a new breed of film, more agitprop than documentary. Idiots in the boardroom By Andrew Leonard Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/03/15/eichenwald/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/03/15/eichenwald/index.html?source=rss 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 By Joyce McGreevy Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/03/12/new_america/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/03/12/new_america/index.html?source=rss 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! By Robert Bryce Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/07/08/kenneth_lay/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/07/08/kenneth_lay/index.html?source=rss There'll be no more White House sleepovers, if indicted Bush crony Kenneth Lay decides to tell all.