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[posting]20.190.220 von PresAbeL am 13.02.06 22:31:02[/posting]Die Story im May1999 hat er selbst verlinkt auf dem Link von #94
http://www.wws.princeton.edu/pkrugman/eman.html

The retreat of business bureaucracy in the face of the market was brought home to me recently when I joined the advisory board at Enron--a company formed in the `80s by the merger of two pipeline operators. In the old days energy companies tried to be as vertically integrated as possible: to own the hydrocarbons in the ground, the gas pump, and everything in between. And Enron does own gas fields, pipelines, and utilities. But it is not, and does not try to be, vertically integrated: It buys and sells gas both at the wellhead and the destination, leases pipeline (and electrical-transmission) capacity both to and from other companies, buys and sells electricity, and in general acts more like a broker and market maker than a traditional corporation. It`s sort of like the difference between your father`s bank, which took money from its regular depositors and lent it out to its regular customers, and Goldman Sachs. Sure enough, the company`s pride and joy is a room filled with hundreds of casually dressed men and women staring at computer screens and barking into telephones, where cubic feet and megawatts are traded and packaged as if they were financial derivatives. (Instead of CNBC, though, the television screens on the floor show the Weather Channel.) The whole scene looks as if it had been constructed to illustrate the end of the corporation as we knew it.

Das war seine Enron Eulogie.
 
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