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More Pigs at the Trough: What Enron and WorldCom Can Teach Us About Goldman and AIG

Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Aig, Ken Lay, Joseph Cassano, Pigs at the Trough, Worldcom, Tyco, Enron, Financial Crisis, John Rigas, Bernard Ebbers, Business News
Arianna Huffington

In 2003, when I wrote Pigs at the Trough, America's corporate crooks were largely playing with shareholders' money. The new batch of Pigs I cover in the just-released updated version is playing with taxpayer money -- trillions of it.

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The Worst CEOs Ever

businessinsider.com | Kamelia Angelova|Jun. 5, 2009, 3:15 PM|21 | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Ken Lay, Ceos, Franklin Raines, Worst CEOs List, Ed Zander, Gary Pruitt, Worst CEOs, Business News

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Madoff Just the Start of Post-Bubble Scandals

Diane Francis | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Sonja Kohn, Economic Bubble, Bernard Madoff Scandal, Bernie Ebbers, Robert Maxwell, Societe Generale, Enron, Economy, Ken Lay, Ponzi Scheme, Bank Medici, Scams, Bernie Madoff, Rene-Thierry Magon De La Villehuchet, Conrad Black, Wall Street, White Collar Crime, Hedge Funds, Worldcom, Banking, Financial Crisis, Bernard Madoff, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Investment Banking, Business News
Diane Francis

The $50-billion fraud, allegedly perpetrated by New York's Bernie Madoff, is a predictable outcome following the collapse of a speculative bubble. Big bubbles attract bigger crooks.

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A Dick Cheney Christmas Carol

Stu Kreisman | Posted 01.11.2009 | Style

Read More: Politics, Holiday Season, Ronald Reagan, Political Humor, George W. Bush, Christmas, Enron, Alberto Gonzales, Dick Cheney, Robert Novak, Charles Dickens, Vice President, Patrick Fitzgerald, Valerie Plame, Ken Lay, Style News
Stu Kreisman

An excerpt from Dick Cheney's Diary: We turned around and I was back in my bedroom at stately Cheney Manor. "Ronnie? Mr. President?" I whispered, but he was gone.

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McCain Owes Us More Than Gramm's Resignation

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gramm Economic Policy, Insider Baseball, Ken Lay, Snake, Phil Gramm, John McCain, Patricia Kilday Hart, Enron, Varmint, Black-Hearted Varmint, John McCain's Gramm Gamble, Lay, Nation of Whiners, Whiners, Gramm, McCain Distances Himself From Gramm, Texas Observer, John McCain Phil Gramm, Phil Gramm Mental Recession, Politics News
Joe Cutbirth

McCain wants us to put him in charge of the world's leading economy, but he is outsourcing his intellectual and philosophical responsibilities in that area. It seems to be part of who he is, just like Bush.

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