# Interesting article about the successes of... Enron!

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**Created:** [December 26, 2006, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-article-about-the-successes-of-enron/385623 "2006-12-26T15:50:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-article-about-the-successes-of-enron/385623/1 "2006-12-26T15:50:20Z")

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[Interesting article](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16299634/site/newsweek/)

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> The company’s name has become synonymous with corporate fraud. Most of its top managers are either already in prison or on their way. It has been derided as a fake business that owed its success to accounting tricks and lies. But now, five years after Enron’s implosion, the marketplace is telegraphing a new story: this was a company that not only had a number of great ideas, but pointed the way for other businesses to make billions