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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Wirecard, Covid-Overwhelmed Hospitals, and Plastic

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Corruption, lobbyingcorporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean. 


A company and the sycophants—I’m sorry, research analysts—who cover it, retaliating against a journalist for raising questions? Say it isn’t so. 

If Wirecard is an age-old story, so is selling the public a story that you know is false so you can keep selling more. Big Tobacco wrote the playbook decades ago, and now, it seems, Big Oil is deploying it

In honor of the 50th anniversary of Milton Friedman’s famous pronouncement that the responsibility of business was to increase its profits

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Bethany McLean is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, a columnist for Yahoo Finance, and a contributor to CNBC. Her 2001 Fortune piece, “Is Enron Overpriced?,” was one of the first skeptical articles about the company. After Enron collapsed into bankruptcy, she co-authored (with Peter Elkind) The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron. A documentary based on the book was nominated for an Academy Award in 2006. She is also the author of All the Devils Are Here (with Joe Nocera), Shaky Ground, and Saudi America. Along with Luigi Zingales, she co-hosts the Podcast Capitalisn't.

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