Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Comments

  • Edgardo 2022-03-15 09:01:06

    It is about the Enron scandal that has colluded with the internal politics and business of the Bush administration. It is more explaining how key Enron people (especially Skilling) used the new concept of bluffing people, and the complicated financial structure was overwhelming. It’s just that if the punishment they received was not severe enough and the subsequent legislation did not keep up, it would be difficult to tell whether this matter was a "negative teaching material". On the contrary,...

  • Isac 2022-03-15 09:01:06

    1. Enron was only the beginning, followed by Lehman. The significance of this film lies in this. The film also emphasizes the policies of the Bush administration. Relaxation of supervision is a very important reason. There is also loose monetary policy for this reason. It was in 2008. The reasons for the occurrence of a series of financial crises, in fact, are the crises and warnings long ago, but are human beings too numb and...

  • Richmond 2022-03-14 14:12:26

    The favorite script of the middle class and the bottom class haha, the elites are bad guys, they mess up everything, and then let the people pay. But the film puts too much emphasis on personal morality. It is inherently unrealistic to expect these smart people to be restrained by morality. Everyone is sitting on the train heading to the cliff and pulling people up, but no one asks whether the car has brakes. , This is not a clever pot, this is a pot of monitoring...

Extended Reading

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room quotes

  • Kenneth Lay: [Q&A session with employees] All right, we are down to questions. And I got a few up here.

    [reads question from the floor]

    Kenneth Lay: 'I would like to know if you are on crack, if so that would explain a lot. If not, you may want to start because it's going to be a long time before we trust you again.'

  • Jeffrey Skilling: Oh I can't help myself. You know what the difference between the state of California and Titanic? And this is being webcast, and I know I'm going to regret this - at least when the Titanic went down, the lights were on.