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Larry Summers' Enron Problem

The supporting role the former Clinton official played in its collapse raises some hard questions about whether he should be the next treasury secretary.

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STEVEN SENNE
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As the incoming Obama administration prepares to find a way out of our latest economic mess, it is worth recalling the forgotten relationship between the man who seems to be a leading candidate for treasury secretary, Lawrence Summers, and the collapse of Enron, which in many ways presaged our current...

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