How Enron Crashed California's Power Grid and Made Billions

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[00:00:00]In 2000, corporate traders turned California's power grid into their personal casino.

[00:00:05]Enron had figured out how to create fake energy shortages, rolling blackouts across the state. Grandmothers couldn't afford their electric bills. The traders recorded themselves laughing about it.

[00:00:15]"Burn, baby, burn," they said, as California burned through billions.

[00:00:20]Meanwhile, executives were dumping their stock while they telling employees to buy more. The scheme made Enron rich and California broke. When it all collapsed, it didn't just destroy Enron. It killed Arthur Andersen accounting and rewrote fraud laws forever. One phone call brought down an empire.