Anyone catch the enron documentary on HDnet?

[TonyM]

This was a very good and informative film, those enron traders were absolutely cutthroat and brutal, laughing and making crude jokes while they were calling the power plants in California and telling them to shut down until they extorted a higher price from California and then they turn the power back on...incredible stuff.

[metalheadrr3]

I bought the DVD a while back. Read half of the book (had the paperback and left it in my car; sun melted the glue on the binding, so I haven't finished it). But yea it's crazy stuff. But hey, as crooked as they were, they were good at it.

[TonyM]

I bought the DVD a while back. Read half of the book (had the paperback and left it in my car; sun melted the glue on the binding, so I haven't finished it). But yea it's crazy stuff. But hey, as crooked as they were, they were good at it.

Well, it's pretty easy to be good when you can turn a power plant on and off with a phone call, but watching wildfires around some power lines during rolling blackouts and saying, "yeah, burn baby, burn" is way beyond being good at free market capitalism. One thing I got out of the movie was how easy it would be for this type of corporate meltdown to happen again, especially when many that helped it happen have so far gone untouched (Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, etc)

[TonyM]

Here's a link to you tube with the audio on one such call to shut down a power plant and make it look like it was unscheduled.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dm61gVae-I&mode=related&search=