Should you watch Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room?
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Documentary · 2005
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
The sides of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
- Enron's executives and their fake profits
- Traders and the California blackouts
- Employees who lost their savings
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is good for you if…
- you like watching executives build a giant on numbers that weren't real.
- you want to understand how Enron fell in 2001.
- you can laugh grimly at traders joking on tape about California's blackouts.
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is bad for you if…
- you need more than charts, tapes and interviews.
- you need some hope, and thousands of employees lose everything here.
About: greed · deception · money
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