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"The Truffle Hunters"

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by David Brancaccio
Oct 21, 2021
Econ Extra Credit newsletter #79
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"The Truffle Hunters"

Inside the secretive market for truffles, one of the world's most expensive foods

by David Brancaccio and Rose Conlon
Oct 21, 2021
How the modern truffle market is changing— and what's staying the same.
"Truffle hunters told me one of their chief challenges is trying to figure out what to charge," said Rowan Jacobsen, author of "Truffle Hound."
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"The Truffle Hunters"

Previewing our October documentary selection

by The Econ Extra Credit Team
Oct 7, 2021
Econ Extra Credit newsletter #78
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"Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"

Your responses to "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"

by The Econ Extra Credit Team
Sep 30, 2021
Econ Extra Credit newsletter #78
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"Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"

What the Enron scandal taught us about investing

by David Brancaccio and Rose Conlon
Sep 30, 2021
"To get the full return of the stock market, you have to invest in all the stocks available, not just your own," says The Wall Street Journal's Jason Zweig.
Enron employees leave the company's Houston headquarters after being laid off in 2001.
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"Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"

20 years later, echoes of Enron's energy deregulation in California, Texas

by David Brancaccio and Rose Conlon
Sep 30, 2021
In California, energy companies gamed the markets and ushered in large-scale blackouts in 2000-2001, incidents that have Enron's fingerprints all over them.
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"Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"

Enron's "road map of the possible"

by The Econ Extra Credit Team
Sep 23, 2021
Econ Extra Credit newsletter #77
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"Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"

The Enron scandal: 20 years later, what’s changed?

by David Brancaccio and Rose Conlon
Sep 23, 2021
Very little, according to Bethany McLean, the first financial reporter to ask questions about Enron's accounting practices.
Former Enron CEO and Chairman Kenneth Lay is sworn in before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation in 2002.
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"Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"

David Brancaccio on “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”

by David Brancaccio
Sep 16, 2021
Econ Extra Credit newsletter #76
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"Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"

Econ Extra Credit: “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”

by The Econ Extra Credit Team
Sep 9, 2021
Econ Extra Credit newsletter #75
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