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One of the great, bestest corporate scandals of them all, because — with the exception of a couple of short-sellers and a determined junior journalist (step forward the awesome Bethany McLean) — ''no-one'' saw this coming.
{{g}}One of the great, bestest corporate scandals of them all, because — with the exception of a couple of short-sellers and a determined junior journalist (step forward the awesome Bethany McLean) — ''no-one'' saw this coming.


So when, freshly bruised by the latest dumpster fire, you compile and update your [[risk taxonomy]] to be prepared for the next one, consider how everyone missed Enron. It isn’t like they missed the red flags. They were all there in plain sight. ''They just didn’t think they were red flags''.
So when, freshly bruised by the latest dumpster fire, you compile and update your [[risk taxonomy]] to be prepared for the next one, consider how everyone missed Enron. It isn’t like they missed the red flags. They were all there in plain sight. ''They just didn’t think they were red flags''.

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One of the great, bestest corporate scandals of them all, because — with the exception of a couple of short-sellers and a determined junior journalist (step forward the awesome Bethany McLean) — no-one saw this coming.

So when, freshly bruised by the latest dumpster fire, you compile and update your risk taxonomy to be prepared for the next one, consider how everyone missed Enron. It isn’t like they missed the red flags. They were all there in plain sight. They just didn’t think they were red flags.

With a hat-tip to the You’re wrong about... podcast, consider this Enron-lionising piece from the Houston Chronicle datelined 15 April 2001: https://www.chron.com/business/article/Enron-Making-of-the-Market-maker-2013245.php

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