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EPISODE · Sep 24, 2025 · 22 MIN

Enron Scandal

from History Dispatches · host Matt and McKinley Breen

For more than a decade, the energy company Enron was at the top of the food chain. Named Forbes most innovative company six years in a row, it had a stock price of nearly a hundred dollars a share. The company was raking in hundreds of millions of dollars in profit. Or so everyone thought. Then, in late 2001, the entire house of cards came crashing down - destroying a company and the savings of thousands of people. This is the story of the Enron Scandal. Sources "The Smartest Guys in the Room" by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeffrey_Skilling_mug_shot.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ken_Lay.jpg History Dispatches is part of the Airwave Media Network: www.airwavemedia.com Interested in advertising on History Dispatches? Email us at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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