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^ Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story ↠ PDF Read by * Kurt Eichenwald eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story "GREED" according to Dbanner. What a shame that the greed of a few individuals at a high level of management could hurt so many people who were employees of Enron and stockholders of the company. In reading the book, I concluded that Skilling and Lay were not the criminals they were accused of being. They were found guilty for believing that what their subordinates had told them was true. Shouldn't we assume that what we are told is true? That is the rule of law in the courtroom. Why not the boa

Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story

Title : Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story
Author :
Rating : 4.66 (865 Votes)
Asin : 0767911792
Format Type : paperback
Number of Pages : 784 Pages
Publish Date : 2014-07-07
Language : English

From an award-winning New York Times reporter comes the full, mind-boggling story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the spectacular scandal that imperiled a presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Washington and Wall Street forever .

"GREED" according to Dbanner. What a shame that the greed of a few individuals at a high level of management could hurt so many people who were employees of Enron and stockholders of the company. In reading the book, I concluded that Skilling and Lay were not the criminals they were accused of being. They were found guilty for believing that what their subordinates had told them was true. Shouldn't we assume that what we are told is true? That is the rule of law in the courtroom. Why not the boardroom?. Carla C. Kerr said Conspiracy of Foolds. I began reading this book with some misgivings because the subject matter isn't exactly tea fare. Having not read anything by Kurt Eichenwald until now, I was thrilled with his writing style. I lived in Dallas during all the hoopla and news of the demise of Enron so I was somewhat familiar with the main characters. Eichenwald does a marvelous job of developing these characters and their personalities with all their pluses and minuses. Unadulterated greed is at the heart of this. Brookemeister said An incredible story that is almost painful to absorb.. The raw ambition, lack of principles and perspective of some of the leading characters made organized crime bosses look good. I appreciated the deep research but at the same time felt it dragged the story to a crawl at times.

What went wrong? Veteran New York Times financial journalist Kurt Eichenwald does an epic job of telling Enron's story in his 742-page tome Conspiracy of Fools. The Houston-based energy firm enjoyed warm ties with newly installed President George W. Eichenwald also reveals how Enron manipulated electricity prices during the California energy crisis of 2000. Conspiracy of Fools tells the Enron tale with a cinematic narrative style, relying almost exclusively on scene and dialogue to bring his account to vivid life. Eichenwald, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, also authored The Informant, an acclaimed account of a vast international price-fixing scandal at Archer Daniels Midland. Less than two months later, Enron filed for bankruptcy in the biggest corporate failure in history. Enron became synonymous with the greed and fraud of the go-go high-tech stock bubble of the late 1990s--the

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