Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
United States
2005
110 Min
Color
1.85:1
English
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Based on the best-selling book of the same name by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, Alex Gibney incredibly reveals how top executives of America’s seventh-largest company walked away with one billion dollars leaving investors and employees with absolutely nothing.
The film comes to a harrowing denouement as we hear Enron traders ringing hundreds of millions of dollars in profits out of the California energy crisis and as a result, we come to comprehend how the unimaginable excess of the Enron hierarchy had such a shocking and profound domino effect that may shape the face of our economy for years to come…
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Cesar
27Mar11
The Neo-cons deregulation theory proved wrong : Traders betting on the price of electricity. Traders buying power plants to cut the power and bet that the price of electricity is going to go up. Trader doing this arguing for dereglementation. Traders win with Bush jr. and schwarzenegger. When the facts hit and the traders fall, 9/11. The Neo-cons turn to religious hawks. The war keeps everything going until 2007
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Let’s start with a summary: Film Opens: Greedy. Selfish. Bastards. End Credits. Viewing this movie reminded me of the boiling frog analogy. (y’know, if you gradually turn up the heat, the frog won’t notice
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
Let’s start with a summary: Film Opens: Greedy. Selfish. Bastards. End Credits. Viewing this movie reminded me of the boiling frog analogy. (y’know, if you gradually turn up the heat, the frog won’t notice
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