A scandal for our time: Republicans ruled; ergo, Enron.
American Prospect, The, February, 2002 by Wilentz, Sean
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THE ENRON AFFAIR IS SHAPING UP AS QUITE POSsibly the largest political and financial scandal in American history. Untold billions of dollars have vanished down the drain in the biggest bankruptcy filing ever. Political connections ensnare every level of the Bush administration. Even more fearsomely than in the past, Americans will learn some hard lessons: that business corrupts politics, that capitalism cannot be trusted simply to the capitalists, and that without government safeguards, the public trust and the public treasury are always at grave risk.
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