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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Were Lying - Part 2: Selling the Future
Season 5
Episode 2
Published 3 weeks, 6 days ago
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By the time Wall Street was listening, Enron was no longer just selling energy. It was selling a vision of the future. And that vision was powerful enough to make skepticism look outdated.Enron wanted investors to believe it had escaped the old category of utility altogether. It was not a pipeline business. It was a platform. It was a market intermediary. It was a place where energy, bandwidth, and risk could all be traded by people smart enough to see around corners.Learn more at: https://thefraudarchive.com/fraud/enron
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