Energy Trading Goes On, But Buyers Are Smarter (Stock Trading)
Tuesday, May 30th, 2006Energy Trading Goes On, But Buyers Are Smarter
When Enron collapsed in 2001, the idea of trading electricity seemed headed for the scrap heap of failed financial innovations.
Steven Mufson
Trial Over, Enron Juror Gets His Life Back
HOUSTON, May 26 — Across town from the federal courthouse where he spent four months, Doug Baggett did something Friday he had not done for a long time.
Carol Rust
Spending Bill Includes Pay Increases for Civil Service, Military
Federal employees would receive a 2.7 percent pay raise next year under a provision included in a fiscal 2007 spending bill.
Stephen Barr
Enron Case A Grueling Trial for Its Lawyers
HOUSTON, May 28 — The unyielding preparation, the sleepless nights spent in a dingy room far from his wife and four children, whom he visited only twice in six months, all came down to this: a few hours of questions in the case of a lifetime.
Carrie Johnson
Snagged by the Network
The nonprofit group where Sadie Dingfelder works was looking for a new Web designer a few months ago. And so when she met an unemployed friend of a friend at a party who told her he had just that background, she thought she could help.
Amy Joyce
Unapologetic Luxury and Plenty of Extras
Markets have no conscience. For business, that is a good thing. A need arises. A fad emerges. Markets find ways to serve and profit from both. That is their logic. And that is the only way to make sense of the 2007 Audi Q7 4.2 sport-utility vehicle.
Warren Brown
U.S. Urges Financial Sanctions On Iran
The Bush administration is pressing Europe and Japan to impose wide-ranging sanctions designed to stifle the Iranian leadership financially if diplomatic efforts fail to resolve an impasse over the country's nuclear program, according to internal government memos and interviews with three U.S….
Dafna Linzer
K Street Confidential
K Street Confidential columnist Jeffrey Birnbaum will be online to discuss what happens when business and government collide.
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
