Enron

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/15/2022
  

  Crypto Collapse Shows No Lessons Learned From Enron Episode

  by Gavin Benke

  The mythos embraced by both Jeff Skilling and Sam Bankman-Fried – that opaque and incomprehensible business practices signalled entrepreneurial genius – has only become more entrenched in the social media era. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/2/2021
  

  After 20 Years, Enron Still Haunts Us

  by Gavin Benke

  Despite Enron's bankruptcy and the resulting economic fallout, American business media is still dangerously credulous toward promises of "innovation" and "disruption" without asking whether the latest hot entrepreneur is using smoke and mirrors. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/21/2021
  

  Why Texas Republicans Fear the Green New Deal

  by Naomi Klein

  The Texas blackouts show the political and social dead ends of the market revolution and the fossil fuel economy, says Naomi Klein. Politicians and industries wedded to the status quo are attacking the idea of a "Green New Deal" because it's encouraging people to imagine alternatives. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/23/2021
  

  Energy Deregulation Worsened the Texas Crisis — And Enron is Partly to Blame

  by Gavin Benke

  The problems in Texas are a product of an approach to the energy business that Lone Star State companies like Enron pursued at the end of the 20th century. 

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• 9/15/18
  

  The Wrong Lesson We Learned from Enron that Led Directly to the 2008 Crash

  by Gavin Benke

  It’s worth remembering now with Jeff Skilling’s release from jail.