{"id":1797,"date":"2013-04-25T15:58:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T19:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2013-04-25T16:02:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T20:02:12","slug":"enron-the-smartest-guys-in-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/?p=1797","title":{"rendered":"Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffd500;\">\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director: <\/strong><a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0316795\/?ref_=tt_ov_dr\">Alex Gibney<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Year:<\/strong> 2005<\/p>\n<p>Since I watched this film 8 years after it came out, I can&#8217;t help but make comparisons to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1645089\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Inside Job<\/a>. Both are about corporate scandal. And yet, 5 years after the fall of Enron, we went through this again with Lehman and other banks. Where as The Inside Job gave a great account with some amazing and powerful people, this film concentrated mostly on found footage and a handful of individuals. I wished it would have focused more on the everyday people who lost their pensions and retirements versus just the corporate Enron watchdogs.<\/p>\n<p>But it made a great connection between the Bushes and even Schwarzenegger. That was very unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1016268\/\" target=\"_blank\">More Info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2605\u2605\u2605 Director: Alex Gibney Year: 2005 Since I watched this film 8 years after it came out, I can&#8217;t help but make comparisons to The Inside Job. Both are about corporate scandal. And yet, 5 years after the fall of Enron, we went through this again with Lehman and other banks. Where as The Inside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[21],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1801,"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/1801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}