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"Bad Bets" Podcast Details the Fall of Enron

The fall of Enron was a scandal that rocked the business world so hard that its aftershocks are still being felt 20 years later. The Texas energy giant was then the seventh largest company in the U.S., with a claimed revenue of over $100 billion. But beneath the surface, the company was concealing huge losses within a complex web of outside deals. What went wrong?

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