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Moral hazard
is a situation in which one party gets involved in a risky event
knowing that it is protected against the risk and the other party will
incur the cost.
Hmmm…
In the case of $90B market cap implosion Enron, it was a structuring
of off-balance sheet entities that were used to artificially boost
sales, hide questionable activities, skirt the regulators/auditors and
enrich senior management that thought they were SO SMART at running the
con that they obviously deserved a big payout.
It didn’t work out so well for Enron in the end.
Fast forward to today and there is Moral Hazard EVERYWHERE from
Glencore to Trafigura to Deutsche Bank…all unwinding and imploding
because they thought they were SO SMART.
Now we have an almost identical situation at a $90B market cap drug
company called Valeant Pharmaceuticals. Today they came out and denied
everything in a conference call (just like Enron did) but the evidence
is mounting that the off-balance sheet entities were set up and
structured to do the EXACT same thing as Enron’s…
1) Artificially boost sales
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