Kids Want Straight Answers

摘要

Fourteen-year-old to parent: "So what do you think about this Enron thing?" "Well, it's complicated. What part of it are you asking about?" Long, silent gaze, bordering on both incredulity at the question and suspicion at the dodge. "The part about a few top-level people lying through their teeth and selling their own shares while the price was high and making tens of millions while they were telling all the regular workers to keep buying the stock with all their pension money no matter how the price went."