Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

[pynchonoid]

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Well your WS investment banker friend is wrong.
> Enron is the egregious
> exception. 
> It's certainly not difficult to trust the integrity
> of corporate
> accounting. And accounting is not propaganda.

Harvard Business School, 20 years on Wall Street,
manager of portfolios worth $5 billion, hears every
pitch and sees every dog-and-pony show --  I'll trust
my investment banker friend.  Likewise, my other
friend with 20+ years experience arguing Coor's
Brewing's tax return in Washington every year. 

You're a schoolteacher, Terrance.  What do you know
about finance except what you read in the papers?


> I don't know who they are. Enron "cooked its books."
> They are not the
> first big company to do it and they won't be the
> last, but they are not
> the standard. The vast majority of US companies
> don't break the law or
> "cook their books." 

I think you're wrong about this. I think the vast
majority cut corners whenever and wherever they can.

I think you and I have taken this thread as far as it
will go, fruitfully.  Please continue without me.


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