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How Enron Mastered Creative Financing..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,830137,00.html Handy Andy When Enron needed cash, the company’s chief financial officer had just the answer: a web of companies that would keep the firm’s liabilities off its books – and make him rich. In the...

How Enron Took Care of George Bush…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/enron/story/0,11337,834484,00.html Friends in high places When George W Bush arrived in the White House, it was hardly surprising that he looked after Enron – the company had been looking after him for years. In the final extract of his...

Return of the Singer/Songwriter..

The pop culture pendulum swings again and in the coming months the boy bands will be purged from the public record by denim-clad Bob Dylan types with messy hair, old gym shirts and acoustic guitars. Yes! After half-a-decade of music from the production line,...

FW: Bush and Cheney are oilmen

Wow.. This is brilliant analysis. Read the whole thing. -Ian. —— Forwarded Message From: “B.K. DeLong” Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 12:33:58 -0400 Subject: [fork-in-exile] Bush and Cheney are oilmen (Sidenote: I’ve since discovered that since...

Gun Control in America

The below article is interesting, in a soothsayer-of-doom sort of way. This brought to my mind three points: – Given the statistically significant percentage of American Presidents that have been shot at while in office, isn’t this alone an argument for...