All Posts Tagged With: "Enron"
Another Look at Enron
Enron’s demise should not have been a surprise, as it was a product of the Federal Reserve’s late 1990s boom.
16Jun2010 | William L. Anderson | 1 comment | ContinuedCapitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy
Capitalism at Work by Robert L. Bradley, Jr., looks at the destructive force of cronyism (or what Bradley calls “political capitalism”) in America. Though people keep saying—especially in the wake of the bursting housing bubble and subsequent financial meltdown—that “capitalism failed,” the book makes the exceedingly important point that what prevails in the United States [...]
24Mar2010 | Michael Beitler | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – June 2007
- Hitlers Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State
by Goetz Aly Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
- The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money
by Timothy P. Carney Reviewed by Sheldon Richman
- Income and Wealth
by Alan Reynolds Reviewed by George C. Leef
- The Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle What We Have Learned; How to Fix It
by Henry N. Butler and Larry E. Ribstein Reviewed by Barbara Hunter
- The Joy of SOX: Why Sarbanes-Oxley and Service-Oriented Architecture May Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You
by Hugh Taylor Reviewed by Barbara Hunter
Punishing the Innocent: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Barbara Hunter is a freelance writer. She recently retired after more than 25 years in the field of information technology, primarily at high-technology companies and law firms. If any person or any group had set itself the task of creating a law whose purpose was to destroy the American free-enterprise system, it could not have [...]
1Mar2007 | Barbara R. Hunter | 5 comments | ContinuedCapitalism: Still on Trial
It was not enough to defeat communism and cause all socialists to rethink their anti-capitalist strategy. Still the private-property market system is under sustained attack from the left. But this time the opposition has a more profitable approach. The aim is no longer to socialize everything, but to subject capitalism to a prolonged ethical assault. [...]
1Mar2005 | Norman Barry | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Tax Code: Now That’s Outrageous!
If you’ve ever had the sinking suspicion that many in the mainstream media just don’t get it, then the September 2002 issue of Reader’s Digest was just for you. In its pages, conservative columnist Tucker Carlson penned his mighty attack on American business under the title “Artful Dodgers,” in the “That’s Outrageous!” department of the [...]
1Dec2002 | Scott McPherson | 0 comments | ContinuedEnron Shows Need for More Regulation?
In his December 24, 2001, Business Week column, journalist Robert Kuttner claimed the Enron scandal “suggests the need for tougher regulation.” That Kuttner would make such a statement is not surprising; he consistently advocates increasing the government’s power over our economic lives. But even many people who are generally sympathetic to economic freedom are questioning [...]
1Jul2002 | David R. Henderson | 0 comments | ContinuedEnron Lessons
The Enron soap opera continues to unfold. and as it unfolds, lessons are being learned. Some people are learning lessons about the energy business. Some are learning lessons about the securities business. Some are learning lessons about the accounting business. But some are not content to learn such narrow lessons. They want to look at [...]
1Jun2002 | Russell Roberts | 1 comment | ContinuedUnfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform by Bradley A. Smith
Princeton University Press • 2001 • 304 pages • $26.95 Reviewed by John Samples Responding to Watergate, Congress a generation ago passed draconian restrictions on campaign spending and fundraising. The Supreme Court eventually struck down the spending limits, but affirmed contribution ceilings and the legality of the new agency empowered to oversee the regulatory regime, [...]
1Jun2002 | Bradley A. Smith | 0 comments | ContinuedEnron and the Law of the Market
People will learn lessons from the collapse of Enron. Some of these will be the wrong lessons. Critics of markets claim that the Enron debacle shows how “capitalism” is defective and proclaim that the government should increase the regulation of corporations and financial markets. There does need to be a change in government policy, but [...]
1May2002 | Fred E. Foldvary | 0 comments | ContinuedSetting Up Pigeons
The anti–free-market crowd is cackling over Enron. But who’s really entitled to say, “I told you so”? Is this the result of unbridled robber barons? Or the predictable outcome of the regulatory regime? There is only one sure consequence of pervasive regulation: a blunted wariness born of a false sense that government watchdogs are on [...]
1May2002 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedEnron and Argentina Are Examples of Market Failure?
In the eyes of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, nearly everything that goes wrong in the world is caused by the fact that government is not big and powerful enough. In a mid-December 2001 column he blamed both the bankruptcy of Enron and the collapse of the Argentine economy on deregulation. But, as is [...]
1May2002 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 3 comments | Continued-
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