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"Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"

Your responses to "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"

by The Econ Extra Credit Team
Sep 30, 2021
Econ Extra Credit newsletter #78
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"Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"

What the Enron scandal taught us about investing

by David Brancaccio and Rose Conlon
Sep 30, 2021
"To get the full return of the stock market, you have to invest in all the stocks available, not just your own," says The Wall Street Journal's Jason Zweig.
Enron employees leave the company's Houston headquarters after being laid off in 2001.
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"Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"

20 years later, echoes of Enron's energy deregulation in California, Texas

by David Brancaccio and Rose Conlon
Sep 30, 2021
In California, energy companies gamed the markets and ushered in large-scale blackouts in 2000-2001, incidents that have Enron's fingerprints all over them.
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"Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"

Enron's "road map of the possible"

by The Econ Extra Credit Team
Sep 23, 2021
Econ Extra Credit newsletter #77
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"Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"

The Enron scandal: 20 years later, what’s changed?

by David Brancaccio and Rose Conlon
Sep 23, 2021
Very little, according to Bethany McLean, the first financial reporter to ask questions about Enron's accounting practices.
Former Enron CEO and Chairman Kenneth Lay is sworn in before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation in 2002.
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"Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"

David Brancaccio on “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”

by David Brancaccio
Sep 16, 2021
Econ Extra Credit newsletter #76
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The legacy of Enron in California's power challenges today

by Lily Jamali
Aug 4, 2021
California faces more potential rolling blackouts this year due to a historic drought. But the state's deregulated power system also plays a role, and dates back to the Enron scandal.
A man sits under his umbrella under high tension power lines in California in August 2020, two days after the state ordered rolling power outages.
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Three fish and the Supreme Court

by Lizzie O'Leary
Oct 10, 2014
What does Enron have in common with a fish?
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How Enron changed regulation

by Stan Alcorn
Jul 18, 2013
J.P. Morgan Chase is reportedly in negotiations with federal regulators over charges the bank manipulated energy markets in California and around the country. This would have looked very different before the Enron scandal a decade ago.
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Final Note

Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling could get early prison release

by Kai Ryssdal
May 8, 2013
Skilling had been sentenced to 24 years in prison.
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