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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Were Lying - Part 5: What the Ashes Revealed
Season 5 Episode 5
After the collapse came the courtroom. And once the papers were laid out, the real question was unavoidable. Was Enron merely a failed company, or wa…
3 months, 1 week ago
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Were Lying - Part 4: The House Starts to Burn
Season 5 Episode 4
The unraveling did not begin with a confession. It began with pressure. And when Enron finally admitted a huge loss, the market realized the story it…
3 months, 1 week ago
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Were Lying - Part 3: The Machinery of Concealment
Season 5 Episode 3
Once Wall Street believed the story, Enron had to keep it alive every day. That is the overlooked burden of a large fraud. It is not an event. It is …
3 months, 1 week ago
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Were Lying - Part 2: Selling the Future
Season 5 Episode 2
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 e…
3 months, 1 week ago
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Were Lying - Part 1: The First Clean Lie
Season 5 Episode 1
In the beginning, Enron did not look like a crime scene. It looked like the future. But hidden inside that rise was a small, clean lie. And once that…
3 months, 1 week ago
1MDB: How a Malaysian Sovereign Fund Was Looted for $4.5 Billion - Part 5: The Price of Belief
Season 4 Episode 5
After the scandal broke open, the accounting began. But accounting is slower than theft. It is narrower. It is often less satisfying. By the time cou…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
1MDB: How a Malaysian Sovereign Fund Was Looted for $4.5 Billion - Part 4: The Day the Story Broke
Season 4 Episode 4
The collapse of 1MDB did not begin with one confession. It began with pressure from too many directions at once. For years, the scheme survived by sp…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
1MDB: How a Malaysian Sovereign Fund Was Looted for $4.5 Billion - Part 3: The Paper Trail of Theft
Season 4 Episode 3
To understand 1MDB, you have to follow the money where it actually went, not where the public was told it would go. That is where the fraud becomes v…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
1MDB: How a Malaysian Sovereign Fund Was Looted for $4.5 Billion - Part 2: The Pitch That Sold the Lie
Season 4 Episode 2
The strange thing about 1MDB is that the pitch was almost too good. It was not sold as a risky deal. It was sold as a sovereign opportunity. A state-…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
1MDB: How a Malaysian Sovereign Fund Was Looted for $4.5 Billion - Part 1: The Promise That Opened the Door
Season 4 Episode 1
A sovereign fund was supposed to build a nation. Instead, it became the front door to one of the biggest thefts in modern finance. The first clue was…
3 months, 2 weeks ago