Too cool to comprehend. (Devil In The Details).(Enron Corp.)(Brief Article)
American Prospect, The, February, 2002
THIS PAST DECEMBER, WE ran into a very successful investment banker and asked him about his firm's Enron exposure. "We haven't been in Enron for the past year," he replied. "We couldn't figure out what it was they were doing." Mind you, he didn't mean that his firm couldn't get to the bottom of Enron's chicanery.
He meant that Enron's day-to-day business had become impenetrable, incomprehensible. Indeed, what distinguishes Enron from, say, the other top-10 firms in last year's Fortune 500 may be less its outrageous business practices than its simple ...
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