The Enron supermarket of corporate crime, fraud, and abuse has engendered
its own media frenzy and congressional investigative momentum to document the
wrongdoing and the harm to innocents; it will likely also stimulate civil
lawsuits and criminal prosecutions. The question that remains is whether federal
and state governments will enact anything beyond Band-Aid reforms--whether they
have the willpower to go after what George Will called "a systemic crisis of
capitalism in this country."