| Chanos short-sells, betting that a contract will go down, applying pressure if necessary, including his famous shorting of enron. |
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| Skilling was indicted on 35 counts of fraud and insider trading related to the enron collapse. |
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| This is not on the scale of enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and the other poster companies for new millennium corporate disasters. |
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| While Swisscom faces challenges, nobody would put it in the company of enron. |
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| And who can forget that priceless moment from the enron saga, as documented in the book The Smartest Guys in the Room. |
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| Yet in their day, Ameriquest and enron looked like innovators too, and were hailed as such. |
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| Or a reference to enron, or Elian Gonzalez, or the Baha Men. |
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| But even after enron imploded, the deregulated market remained. |
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| Just because they can point to the prior administration and say they took wads of Enron money does nothing to excuse the republicans. |
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| Enron could bilk investors because, despite the razzle-dazzle, nobody outside the company could figure out Enron's game. |
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| Since the collapse of Enron in January 2002, maintenance has become more akin to life support. |
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| My guess is that the wonky balance sheets that we associate with corporate failures such as Enron and Worldcom were more widespread. |
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| Opponents of the market say we have to stop another Enron from happening again. |
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| As the Enron scandal continues its reverberations, as guilty pleas and tales of trials to come mount, the books about the case grow longer. |
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| Lay didn't insist on arm's-length transactions at Enron, but now that the cuffs are on, he's using the arm's-length defense. |
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| The truth is that the Enron saga began in India many years ago, many years before I knew anything about it. |
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| You may already had read that the Florida state pension fund took a bath on Enron stock. |
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| Enron traders taped all their business conversations to keep a record of daily transactions. |
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| Yes I know the links to Enron are tenuous at best, but since when has that stopped various newspapers. |
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| Every few days, another political figure is linked to the bamboozlers at Enron. |
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| The scuttlebutt I hear is that Enron was long to the same extent that other energy suppliers and wholesale traders were long. |
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| After the Enron collapse, Mike mined his database of company stats looking for signs that might have foretold the energy giant's downfall. |
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| At present, the Enron scandal is largely defined by the financial shenanigans that have surfaced. |
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| Right up to the end, Enron was described in the exalted realms of management theory and business journalism with virtually unmodulated adoration. |
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| No court or court-appointed trustee would do such a thing, because the Enron claimants would be all over them in a New York minute. |
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| Enron officials have bristled at criticism that they aren't working quickly enough. |
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| The Ken Lay I knew was a stand-up guy who did everything he could for his community and I lost money in Enron. |
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| Enron and the damage done to investors' confidence is also a nagging ache for the stock market. |
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| Technology was hype after all, promoted by the criminals of Enron and WorldCom. |
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| Don't miss the part maybe two-thirds of the way through where the Enron guys come out to confab with Arnold before the recall process gets going. |
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| Moreover, sources close to Enron began to furnish the Journal with documents. |
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| From the darkness that is Enron, I see a new day dawning in energy in America. |
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| Meteorologists and PhDs in math and economics helped analyze and model the vast amounts of data that Enron used in its trading operations. |
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| Finally, the CFTC exists primarily to protect commodities investors and the exchanges, areas where Enron was not particularly active. |
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| The business section was filled with Enron stories, and he skimmed that quickly. |
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| Enron lived to open new markets in previously unimagined areas. |
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| Sherron Watkins is the woman that brought the Enron scandal to light, but would-be whistle-blowers in the federal government can't seem to get their complaints heard. |
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| One type would work in a coaching role and the other act as a referee in the firm to prevent Scottish businesses from suffering Enron style disasters. |
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| So he arranged to meet with a man who had headed a corporation with extensive business ties to Enron and who had been a prime recipient of Enron's political largesse. |
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| This is a problem that does not lend itself to neat political solutions, for all the righteous indignation inspired by rogue companies like Enron. |
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| The collapse of Enron last December initiated a chain reaction which uncovered serious accounting fraud at a number of US multinationals, and put Wall Street into a tailspin. |
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| But Enron ought to be seen as the casebook for fundamental reform. |
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| A CBS movie revisits Enron, with all its chicanery, flimflam, excess, hanky-panky, and its descent into the dark, if darkly comic, side of capitalism. |
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| Spend a foot-wrenching jog in the wrong pair of kicks and your adventures in the asphalt trade promise to be as enjoyable as an Enron stock return. |
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| Enron turned out to be the first of a wave of similar accounting fraud cases which shattered investor confidence and sent stock markets nosediving downwards last year. |
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| The chain reaction soon spread over the rest of the corporate landscape, where Enron had long been regarded as a leader in the field of clever accounting tricks. |
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| But as a highly-leveraged market-maker in all kinds of commodities, Enron could only survive on the goodwill and trust of its financiers, customers and shareholders. |
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| The demise of Enron, a highly respected energy trading firm, dented investor confidence in corporate America, and sent shock waves through the financial markets. |
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| Financial disasters such as Enron, WorldCom, the subprime mortgage derivatives crisis, and the Madoff Ponzi scam also belong to the same class. |
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| In case you're wondering, we don't think TXU is another Enron in the making. |
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| In 2002, GE acquired the windpower assets of Enron during its bankruptcy proceedings. |
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| Also in 2002, GE Wind Energy was formed when GE bought the wind turbine manufacturing assets of Enron Wind after the Enron scandals. |
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| The collapse of Enron wiped out the life savings of many people, leaving them poor in their retirement. |
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| The sudden collapse of Enron implicated Andersen in a debacle made more ensnarling by Andersen's document shredding. |
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| Experts agree that Enron brought tremendous value and potential for commodifying future risks in new areas that may have once been overlooked. |
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| In Houston, Enron Field magically became Minute Maid Park when the former self-destructed a couple of years ago. |
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| Riding on top of this Pure IP network is a control layer enabled by Enron Communications' standards-based InterAgent technology. |
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| Enron Corp., once a major U.S. corporation, is now famous for cooking the books. |
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| That the series archly referenced such modern-day scandals as Enron and, in its loonily bizarre finale, Halliburton, will likely be lost on most voters and viewers. |
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| Calypso would link with a proposed pipeline to be owned and operated by an affiliated Bahamian corporation, Hawksbill Creek LNG, also owned by Enron. |
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