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post Wed 13th April 2011, 6:39pm
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Just for a bit of fun, here is how the news media portrayed Enron, up until a couple of months before the financial scandal broke.

You know, Enron -- the "world's biggest energy trader".

Sort of like Wikipedia -- the "world's biggest encyclopedia".
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post Wed 13th April 2011, 8:34pm
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Just for a bit of fun, here is how the news media portrayed Enron, up until a couple of months before the financial scandal broke.

You know, Enron — the “world's biggest energy trader”.

Sort of like Wikipedia — the “world's biggest encyclopedia”.


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Coincidentally enough, when we lived in Houston back in the early 90's we used to drive by the Enron Building on our way to the University of Houston Clear Lake Library.

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