I saw the Enron documentary yesterday.  It's a Ten
by the way.  See it if you can.

Anyway the movie flashes the book Selfish Genes as a book Skilling runs his life by.

From the book or like minded authors-

We humans are blissfully unaware that we are driven to behave in ways that maximize inclusive fitness. Because of the advantages of unawareness of our own deceptive tactics and of our suspicion, I suggest that innate tendencies made us "embarrassingly stupid" as far as conscious awareness of these facts is concerned.

Evolutionary theory predicts the inherent selfishness of the individual. Therefore, we would not expect communication to develop as a means of informing others of the truth, if such truth gives the recipient an advantage at the expense of the sender. Cronk (1991) suggests to "follow the example of animal behavior studies in seeing communication more as a means to manipulate others than as a means to inform them". In other words, most communication serves for the purpose of social influence, defined as "change in one person's beliefs, attitudes, behavior, or emotions brought about by some other person or persons" (Raven, 1983, p. 8).

This demonstrates that deceit as an influence strategy is neither new nor a human invention. Second, it is likely that humans employ strategies as low as level two (body language signals of strength or submission) or maybe even level one (immature and baby-like facial features in an adult).

In summary, we should expect a good strategists to strive to maintain an image of being a truthful person. He or she should be prepared to deceive whenever it confers a sizable advantage versus a much smaller risk.

It's now obvious that the powers that be got away with the Enron model.  Lay and Skilling are big, but they ain't
Chase Morgan or CSFB.

The US has absolutely no intention of slowing "growth"
(the same def as Enron's-whatever we say it is).

We will continue until stopped.  By PO, Climate Change,  or nuking Iran.