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#1: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Apr 4, 2026

Heh. They were all supposed to get *so* rich!

This one IDK

Me either, Jota.

Enron

I didn't recognize this one either.

Enron was a large energy company that went bankrupt after their "creative accounting" fraud became public in 2001. They claimed to have been generating over $100B in revenue, though much of that was found to be criminally false.

I'm in Denver, and we named the football field after these bozos until they were found out. Back to "Mile High" now.

I remember that, Gary!

Mile High was Enron Field at one time? That doesn't sound familiar at all. I do like to still call the ballpark where the Astros play "Enron Field" but that's because I'm a Rangers fan :P

"The smartest guys in the room" by McLean and Elkind
is a wonderful book about the rise and fall or Enron. (Actually, the rise isn't that interesting; it is the fall that makes the book interesting.)

I understood the Enron scandal through an accounting lens. It was through the detailed news and speculation that reached me about the malfeasance and imminent collapse of Arthur Andersen LLC, Enron's audit firm, that I first became aware of the Enron situation. It subsequently became known that Enron was not the only client for which the firm knowingly manipulated the audit, abetted the deliberate criminal misstatement of financial reporting, and destroyed corporate documents. The speed of its global collapse was unprecedented. In 2001 Andersen was one of the Big Five accounting firms in the world, a pillar of the profession; by the end of 2002 its name was so tarnished that it had to close its doors.

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