What a world! Terrorists, lying CEOs, stock hustlers, power-mad politicians, conniving regulators, and paid-off pundits: they seem to be everywhere. As the revelations about Enron and its political connections remind us, our world is horribly tainted by graft, special favors, blackmail, quid pro quos, duplicity, and dissembling. The government is the worst offender, of course, but apart from God Himself, whom or what can you trust? There is a force in this world you can trust. It brought down the high-flying Enron and punctured all its pretensions, along with tens of thousands of other formerly infallible companies in the last … Continue reading The Only Honest Thing