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Re: trading bandwidth


From: Brett Watson <brett () the-watsons org>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 15:54:19 -0700


On May 29, 2012, at 3:10 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:

IIRC, the concept was first introduced by MCI and Enron to great fanfare
and subsequent graphic demonstrations of the destructive power of
unregulated markets controlled by people of limited moral fortitude.

Not ALL of us were of limited moral fortitude! :) I still think the concept was fundamentally sound, and I certainly 
meant well, but I was in a position of very little power so what I said generally didn't carry a lot of weight in that 
environment.

-b

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