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Non-Tech : The Enron Scandal - Unmoderated -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (1552)	2/12/2002 1:53:40 PM
From: JBTFD	Respond to of 3602

Krugman is good today: But right now the Bush administration is busily doing the most important thing a government can do to promote biznes: nothing. So far Harvey Pitt, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, has failed to propose any meaningful reform in the lax rules that made Enron possible. And as Floyd Norris noted last week in this newspaper, the Bush administration has balked at providing a significant increase in the S.E.C.'s budget — even though "it pays far less than the private sector and, more amazingly, less than other federal regulatory agencies." nytimes.com