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And Enron was the Enron moment of what industry exactly? These comparisons make for good clickbait, but in reality they're meaningless. The truth is, these so
by friend_and_foe 4y ago
And Enron was the Enron moment of what industry exactly?
These comparisons make for good clickbait, but in reality they're meaningless.
The truth is, these sorts of things happen in cryptocurrency every bear market, and in more mature markets as well but just to a less extreme degree. The only reason it feels huge in cryptocurrency is because the news has been covering it non stop, celebrities were endorsing things and commercials were on TV. In reality the magnitude of this collapse, logarithmically, is smaller than all previous bitcoin and related market collapses. In absolute terms it's big, and it is a big deal just like any financial happenings are a big deal, but itst being made bigger than it is because there's money to be made manipulating emotions.
- ly3xqhl8g9 4y agoEnron was the Elf Aquitaine [1] compounding moment of the energy industry. It's not comparison, it's a chain reaction, fraud begets fraud. [1] Happened in 1994: 'the biggest fraud inquiry in Europe since the Second World War... Elf became a private bank for executives who spent £200 million on political favours, mistresses, jewellery, fine art, villas and apartments', £200 million, how quaint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elf_Aquitaine#Fraud_scandal_(1994) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elf_Aquitaine#Fraud_scandal_(1...