By Jason Zweig | Dec. 24, 2011Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet Do you hear something jingling? It might not be sleigh bells. It might be billions of pennies cascading into the pockets of money managers, an unwitting gift from clients caught up in the perennial December ritual of “window dressing.” This time every year, most of the market tends...
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By Jason Zweig | Dec. 5, 2011 2:58 pm ET Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Ten years ago last Friday, Enron Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection. Once the seventh-largest company on the Fortune 500 and, according to its official motto, “The World’s Leading Company,” Enron crashed as fast and hard as any giant in corporate history. What lessons does...
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