Word: enronizing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...when debt markets blow up. Why didn't they see the bankruptcy of California's Orange County coming in 1994? Why did they fail to account for the currency risks brewing in Thailand and Indonesia and South Korea in 1997? And how was it that they were still rating Enron's debt as investment grade four days before the company went belly...
...congressional hearing or two, the ratings agencies have always been allowed to go their merry and profitable way. And why not? Inability to see into the future isn't a crime, plus there has usually been someone else available to take the fall--like Arthur Andersen in the Enron case...
...responsible for collecting taxes and providing services. In contrast, the U.S. has corporate welfare, tax cuts for the wealthy and the decimation of public services and infrastructure. Republican administrations have dispensed with oversight of corporations, leading to job outsourcing and the financial collapses and crises of companies such as Enron, MCI and banks with a big stake in the mortgage industry. It matters what Presidents...
...Cooper relented after we told her we wanted her to meet two other famous women of the moment: Coleen Rowley, the FBI whistleblower from Minneapolis, and Sherron Watkins, the Enron whistle-blower. All three women became TIME's Persons of the Year...
...cash in early, the revelations about his staggering paycheck triggered an imbroglio that ended his eight-year reign as King of the Club and brought a lawsuit by then New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Was Grasso, who was interviewed for the book, a victim of the post-Enron era or just another fat-cat CEO? Both. Gasparino insists that Grasso was "one of the most remarkable men Wall Street and corporate America has ever seen" as well as an autocrat whose "obsession with his enemies at times bordered on paranoia...