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#85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Enron - The Inflection Point in the History of Financial Markets

Enron was an interesting inflection point in the history of financial markets. There hadn't been a big fraud for a lot of years, but before that, so the idea that this company could be a fraud was almost inconceivable at that point in time. I think there was a lot of wilful blindness and a lack of understanding of how enron made its money. But i don't, i don't think my story had that much to do with it. It picked up on this underlying scepticism about enron that that was growing....

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