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In a financial world shaking from the Enron scandal, many investors are viewing with fresh skepticism the bookkeeping methods of a range of companies, including even blue chips that are widely admired and accused of nothing illegal. Some of the companies that investors point to are American Airlines, the insurer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under The Microscope | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

Equally rapacious were businessmen like Takenosuke Ogura, who moved to Korea in 1903 as head of a Japanese electric power company. Much of his collection?some 1,100 pieces?today sits in the Tokyo National Museum, including blue celadon vases, bronze Buddhas and a priceless, unique gold crown taken from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Legacy Lost | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

A key task-force meeting, sources tell Time, was held by Cheney in the White House on May 3. Among attendees were two lobbyists for electric utilities: former Montana Governor and now G.O.P.chairman Marc Racicot and former G.O.P.chairman Haley Barbour. Two weeks later, Cheney's report gave the lobbyists much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting the Ear Of Dick Cheney | 2/3/2002 | See Source »

It's almost enough to make you nostalgic for Ma Bell. Twenty years ago, we had no choices at all. There was one electric company, one phone company, no Internet, no cell phones. Prices were high, but there were only a few bills to pay each month. Now there are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Connected: How To Untangle All Those Offers | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

Once middle-class Chinese have homes and steady incomes, they will want to insure them. That, at least, is the bet of foreign life and property insurers, among the earliest financial-service companies to enter China's markets. Upon accession, China began to allow foreign life insurers to own 50...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Free Trade: China's New Party | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

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