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Enron - The Smartest Guys in the Room

This is not a political documentary. It is a crime story. No matter what your politics, "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" will make you mad.
Featuring: Kenneth Lay, Jeff Skilling, Lou Pai, Mike Muckleroy, Sherron Watkins, Red. James Nuter, Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind and others. Narrated by Peter Coyote.

What's he building in there?
What the hell is he building in there?
It had taken Enron 16 years to go from about 10 billion of assets to 65 billion of assets.
It took them 24 days to go bankrupt.
What the hell is he building in there?
This company collapsed so quickly and so entirely.
I mean it was into bankruptcy within a matter of weeks.

It just immediately had all the makings of a gigantic scandal.
He's hiding something from the rest of us.
The fatal flaw at Enron if there is one, you say it was pride but then it was arrogance, intolerance, greed, So many of them were blinded by the money that they didn't see that they were sinking their own life boat We have a right to know.
It just got hungrier and hungrier.
Sooner or later they were doomed to go off that cliff at 90 miles an hour.
It 's astounding that they got away with it for so long.
In reality, Enron was a house of cards.
What we didn't know was that the house of cards had been built over a pool of gasoline It all sort of became smoke and mirrors.
Committee will come to order.
This is a case of America's largest corporate bankruptcy.