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The Motley Fool
December 7, 2011
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You Can Still Benefit From Solid Enron Management Enron and its shenanigans may be gone, but you can benefit from its remaining strength.   |
The Motley Fool
July 5, 2006
Bill Mann |
The Death of a Salesman How do you eulogize one of the most hated men in America? Ken Lay managed to destroy the wealth of tens of thousands of people and trigger much-needed reforms in how America regulates its public companies. |
The Motley Fool
February 2, 2006 |
Foolish Flashback: Enron's Jeff Skilling As the Enron trial of Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling continues, here's a 2001 interview with Skilling about the company's presence on the Internet as well as his views of the California power shortage. |
BusinessWeek
February 6, 2006
Anthony Bianco |
Ken Lay's Audacious Ignorance Even if one of America's worst ex-CEOs beats the rap - and he just might - history's verdict will be harsh. |
Salon.com
October 8, 2002
Andrew Leonard |
In greed we trusted Robert Bryce's Enron book entertainingly chronicles fraudulent excesses and office sex. But was Enron a fluke -- or capitalism taken to its logical extreme? |
The Motley Fool
February 3, 2006 |
Foolish Flashback: More With Jeff Skilling As the Enron trial of Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling continues, here's part 2 of a 2001 interview with Skilling about the company's presence on the Internet as well as his views of the California power shortage. |
The Motley Fool
January 13, 2012
Chuck Saletta |
I Will Not Throw Good Money After Bad in 2012 There's bargain hunting, and then there's stupid. |
Salon.com
November 9, 2001
Andrew Leonard |
Enron, we hardly knew ye Ironically, only one thing could have saved the now-imploding corporate poster child for deregulation: Tougher regulations requiring more financial "transparency"... |
Fast Company
March 2002
John Ellis |
Life After Enron's Death Preventing another Enron means understanding what really went wrong. That means understanding transparency, opportunity, and speed... |
The Motley Fool
February 19, 2004
Bill Mann |
Another Brick in the Enron Wall Prosecutors get their biggest prize to date: Enron executive Jeff Skilling. |
The Motley Fool
April 24, 2006
Robert Aronen |
Kinder Morgan's Pipeline of Profits This company operates approximately 43,000 miles of natural gas and petroleum product pipelines in North America and is riding a wave of profits. Is it too late for new investors to go along for the ride? |
Salon.com
January 15, 2002
Andrew Leonard |
Ken Lay: "There are no accounting issues" Even as an executive was warning Enron's CEO of impending problems, he was telling the press that all was well... |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 7, 2008
Martha Lagace |
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron Companies can take steps to help senior executives avoid the two sources of leadership failure at Enron: personal opportunism and flights to utopianism. |
The Motley Fool
January 30, 2006 |
Foolish Flashback: Enron's Ken Lay As Ken Lay's fraud and conspiracy trial begins today in Houston, here is a look back at a January 2000 interview. Read what he said then, and compare it with what we know now. |
The Motley Fool
April 21, 2005
Rich Smith |
Kinder Morgan's a Winner A winner indeed. If not necessarily in March, then certainly in April. For the rest of this year, pipeline company Kinder Morgan is sticking by its January prediction of better than $4.22 per share in profits. |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2006
Robert Aronen |
Enron Still Matters Enron was a catastrophe in the public markets. Individual investors should take a hard look at the trial so they know what happened and how it came to be, with the intent of learning to avoid companies that exhibit the same characteristics in the future. |
The Motley Fool
April 13, 2004
Rich Smith |
Kinder Morgan's Wonder Boy With a CEO poster boy for modest compensation, natural gas pipeline giant Kinder Morgan's looking good. |
Salon.com
January 29, 2002
Jake Tapper |
How to be an Enron millionaire According to former colleagues, two executives reaped million-dollar windfalls by investing $6,000 apiece in the company's partnership scam. A case study in corporate rot... |
U.S. Banker
January 2002
Robert A. Bennett |
Put the Reins on Passion Lenders and investors were so caught up in Enron's philosophy that they were blind to reality... |
BusinessWeek
June 12, 2006
Maria Bartiromo |
The Ones Who Got Away If the Enron saga has a truth teller, it's Sherron Watkins, the whistleblowing executive who at least tried to do the right thing. Watkins hasn't been shy about speaking to the media or going on the lecture circuit. But her candor here may surprise you. |
The Motley Fool
December 22, 2011
Aimee Duffy |
Our Top 5 Energy Stocks for 2012: Kinder Morgan Kinder Morgan's growing pipeline network is a can't-miss play for 2012. |
Salon.com
January 24, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Houston under siege Residents of Enron's hometown can't stop comparing the collapse of the energy trader to Sept. 11... |
The Motley Fool
January 28, 2011
Chuck Saletta |
10 Core Stocks: A Kinder Morgan Energy Partners Update Kinder Morgan Energy Partners simply keeps plugging along -- moving oil, natural gas, carbon dioxide, and similar products around the country. |
Salon.com
November 30, 2001
Andrew Leonard |
Will Bush be tarnished by Enron's collapse? The crash of his top corporate backer should discredit the president's anti-regulation economic policies, but it's unlikely to lead to reform... |
Job Journal
April 9, 2006
Michael Kinsman |
Career Pros: Enron Kept Reality at Bay When Enron's problems first surfaced, Lay and Skilling had an obligation to be candid with everyone around them. |
The Motley Fool
January 19, 2012
David Lee Smith |
Kinder Morgan's Brightly Blazing Future Midstream leader Kinder Morgan is growing at an explosive rate. |
The Motley Fool
July 8, 2004
Bill Mann |
Lay Surrenders, Pleads Not Guilty It took more than two years for to make a case against the executive who lorded over Enron's collapse that federal prosecutors think will stick. |
The Motley Fool
January 8, 2004
Bill Mann |
A Step Closer to Ken Lay? The first of Enron's top brass may be closing plea bargains with time in the slammer. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Oh, the Games Enron Played The Enron story is not simply a case of a lone company that played with fire and got burned. Enron was able to take enormous risks while keeping shareholders in the dark because it could exploit accounting loopholes for subsidiaries that are available to most publicly traded companies. |
The Motley Fool
October 19, 2011
Aimee Duffy |
Natural Gas Fuels Another Acquisition Kinder Morgan buys El Paso. |
Fast Company
May 2002
Charles Fishman |
What If You'd Worked at Enron? We've all heard the same Enron story: executives at the top behaving badly, victims at the bottom losing their savings. But the truth is in the middle... |
The Motley Fool
April 24, 2006
Robert Aronen |
Kinder Morgan Energy on the Move A changing pipeline industry offers this MLP major growth potential. This company offers an opportunity for investors to benefit from America's oil addiction without exposure to volatile commodity prices. |
Salon.com
January 18, 2002
Jake Tapper |
More than one Enron official warned company about growing crisis One staff lawyer grew so worried, he secretly hired an outside law firm to review the company's murky business partnerships. Another executive was reassigned after raising alarms... |
The Motley Fool
January 19, 2005
Rich Smith |
Kinder Morgan Pumps Out Profits This natural-gas-pipeline company's profits go in only one direction: straight up. |
The Motley Fool
April 21, 2011
David Lee Smith |
Kinder Morgan's Earnings Lead to a Distribution Boost Despite somewhat lower revenues, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners produced a solid quarter from both financial and operating perspectives. |
BusinessWeek
March 21, 2005
Wendy Zellner |
Inside Enron's House of Cards Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald offers the liveliest and probably the best Enron account so far. |
The Motley Fool
December 3, 2010
Michael Olsen |
I Can't Buy This Investment -- but You Can This exchange-traded debt opportunity looks too good to pass up. |
The Motley Fool
April 26, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Ken Lay's Startling Youa-Culpa The former Enron CEO blames the media and short sellers for Enron's demise. How convenient. Don't let this dribble provide an excuse for ordinary investors to toss away due diligence in favor of conspiracy theories. |
The Motley Fool
October 19, 2007
Toby Shute |
A Kinder, Gentler Profit Machine Kinder Morgan has grown from a simple pipeline company into a potpourri of profitable segments, with earnings up 38% this quarter. |
CFO
Ronald Fink |
Beyond Enron The fate of Andrew Fastow and company casts a harsh light on off-balance-sheet financing... |
The Motley Fool
July 14, 2004
Rich Smith |
A Gem in the Pipelines? The natural gas pipeline company Kinder Morgan continues to pump out the profits. |
The Motley Fool
January 15, 2004
Rich Smith |
IPO: Imitator's Public Offering Natural gas transporter Crosstex Energy went public on Tuesday. |
U.S. Banker
March 2002
Roger Furman |
Trying Not To Pay Insurance companies are trying to wiggle out of paying Morgan Chase $1.1 billion, underscoring the dangers of using new financial instruments, or old ones in new ways. The likelihood is that the bank will win... |
BusinessWeek
May 8, 2006
Lorraine Woellert |
The-Reporter-Did-It-Defense Ken Lay claims the press sped Enron's fall by scaring investors. Does he have a case? |
BusinessWeek
September 10, 2007
Hindo & Megerian |
Surviving Enron--And Thriving How oil and gas driller Mariner overcame the stigma and became a hot growth star. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 21, 2006
Malcolm S. Salter |
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message The most noteworthy message of the Enron trial is that corporate executives can be convicted in a court of law for a pattern of deception that may or may not be illegal. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Enron's Kenneth Lay: The Last Road Not Taken Ken Lay could have taken specific action that would have prevented bankruptcy and saved the jobs of thousands of Enron employees. This article compares Lay's choices with those facing Salomon chief executive John Gutfreund a decade earlier... |
The Motley Fool
May 11, 2006
Chuck Saletta |
Invest Like You Need the Money There's only so much money left at the end of the month. If you really want to get to the point where your money works hard enough so you don't have to, you need to invest what you have as efficiently as you can. |
Salon.com
January 23, 2002
Christopher Ketcham |
Enron's human toll How employees of the energy trader got sucked into stock market euphoria -- and catastrophe... |
The Motley Fool
April 25, 2005
Chuck Saletta |
Read the Fine Print Take advantage of corporate complexity to find hidden value investment opportunities. |
