Deregulation
Subject in Politics
Deregulation has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Stuff You Should Know. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Josh ClarkCo-host of Stuff You Should Know
Clark suggests that powerful people who deregulate often don't care about consequences because they profit before things blow up.
“They know that they're going to make a boatload of money by the time the thing really kind of blows up sometime down the line”
Stuff You Should Know: Selects: How Enron Fooled the World (Jun 27, 2026) · Listen from 8:21
Clark argues that deregulation is not inherently bad but was done incorrectly by fully removing oversight.
“Not that there's a problem with deregulation, that it was done incorrectly like it seems to be every single time”
Stuff You Should Know: Selects: How Enron Fooled the World (Jun 27, 2026) · Listen from 5:35
Chuck BryantCo-host of Stuff You Should Know
Bryant argues that free-market deregulation fails to account for greedy humans who exploit the system at others' expense.
“there are inevitably going to be greedy humans with so much hubris that they sell their souls to make money”
Stuff You Should Know: Selects: How Enron Fooled the World (Jun 27, 2026) · Listen from 7:28
Podcasts
- Stuff You Should Know · 1 episode
Episodes
Selects: How Enron Fooled the WorldStuff You Should Know · Jun 27, 2026 · 1 h
Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant recount the rise and collapse of Enron, from deregulation and the California energy crisis to accounting fraud, bankruptcy and its aftermath.