Films directed by
Alex Gibney

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

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The massive corporate malfeasance that led to the self-destruction of the Enron Corporation was stunning not just because of the bubble of unreality that surrounded the company for years as it bled cash like a hemopheliac while driving up its stock price like it was strapped to a Saturn booster. What was really like a kick to the head was the sheer number of corporate enablers they had. Had someone, anyone, called Enron on their practices, the company would have disintegrated years earlier than it did, presumably taking fewer pension plans and 401k’s down with it. The outrage that was the California energy crisis of 2000 might have been avoided as well.

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