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Morfit: Dot-com era Wall Street research relied on executive hero worship
“I looked around and I saw a system that was built on hero worship. Number one, we used to bring folks like Jeff Skilling of Enron in and have these big town hall meetings, and everybody would ooh and ah about how brilliant he was, and next in would be Hank Gre…”
Boehly: Team advised selling Enron bonds at 90 cents before collapse
“And at the time the Enron bonds were trading right around 88, 90 cents on the dollar, depending on the bond. And we basically made the recommendation to sell the Enron debt, and the CEO of Salmon's at the time said, you guys are wrong.”