Rebecca Smith (1)
Autor/a de 24 Days: How Two Wall Street Journal Reporters Uncovered the Lies that Destroyed Faith in Corporate America
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Obres de Rebecca Smith
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Professions
- journalist
- Premis i honors
- Gerald Loeb Award (2001)
Pulitzer Prize finalist (Beat Reporting ∙ 2001)
Membres
Ressenyes
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 1
- Membres
- 95
- Popularitat
- #197,646
- Valoració
- 3.3
- Ressenyes
- 6
- ISBN
- 69
- Llengües
- 3
There is a lot of business talk in this book. I was not a business major, nor do I fully grasp how debt is anything but something to get rid of as quickly as possible. The idea of "leveraged debt" is an oxymoron in my (many) books! But all kidding aside, the fact that Enron created such complicated balance sheets and explanations for what they did was part of the problem. So was the complicity of rating agencies - they fell for guys in power who charmed their way through quarterly stock updates instead of asking the tough questions.
This book is along the lines of "All the President's Men," in that it involves the lives of the journalists who uncovered the lies and asked the right questions. And it is fascinating to remember that a couple of tough questions, and a couple of tips shared, began the questioning process that led to the collapse of this industry behemoth. In only 24 days.… (més)