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Regardless of whether the executive committed felonies, the company broke fundamental laws.

Listener: 28 January, 2006.

Keywords: Business & Finance;

I don’t know whether Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, top executives of Enron, the giant US energy company that crashed in 2001, will be found guilty of the various felonies for which they are about to be tried. That is a question of what they did, and the intricacies of any statute law that they may have broken.

Keywords: Literature and Culture;

Poor economic performance is the consequence of poor economic thinking

Listener 14 January, 2006.

Keywords: Growth & Innovation;

I am even gloomier than the latest report from the New Zealand Institute (NZI), Dancing with the Stars: The International Performance of the New Zealand Economy. Its sobering conclusion is that, compared to the economies we desire to emulate, our global connectedness is near the bottom.