WorldCom's Wrong Numbers

摘要

Two of america's favorite financial fantasies came to an end last week. "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," once the hottest show on television because it let us all dream about becoming rich overnight, went off the air after its last regularly scheduled episode. And WorldCom, once the hottest stock on Wall Street, whose doubling-every-year performance created dreams of wealth, had its last episode, too. WorldCom hasn't been formally canceled―but the show's over. It's only a matter of time before the reverberations from WorldCom's staggering $3.85 billion wrong number force the company into bankruptcy court―it could be the biggest case ever―where it's likely to be sold off in pieces.