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As the once-formidable Enron Empire continues to implode--and new revelations appear daily about the inner workings (and apparent financial shenanigans) of this firm--we are treated, not surprisingly, to the wrong story by the mainstream news media and their associates from the political classes.  It is bad enough to see a huge firm go bankrupt,

With Enron, Global Crossing, and other debacles in the news, the usual hue and cry for “more regulation” is hitting full steam.  In a recent New York Times  column, Paul Krugman--always an apostle for expansion of the police powers of the state--says that the Enron collapse will have an even larger impact on the future of this country than the

During the debate on whether or not to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), the U.S. Department of the Interior has posted Website pictures of the actual area where oil would be drilled--and those pictures conclusively demonstrate that the pictures of mountains and abundant wildlife shown on television news broadcasts are

I write these words while driving away from an interdisciplinary business conference that my colleagues and I attended this past week. One might think that business professors might have a handle on what happened with the collapse of the Enron Corporation and the implosion of other firms whose failures, while not as spectacular as the former