Enron Ethics Analysis

Increase in suicide rate: During depression and the market crash it is said that many people committed suicide as they lost everything they had. On the day of market crash it said that more than 10 brokers committed suicide. 3. People lost faith in government: After the market crash people didn’t trust the government. Many protest and strikes were carried out against the government.

America was thrown into desperation as the stock market crumbled, marking the official beginning of the worst economic crash in the history of the world. Banks shut down, people became bankrupt and the number of unemployed reached one-quarter of the workforce. Farmers needed to produce more goods for the same amount of money; which led to a huge seven-year drought. ‘The dirty thirties.’ When thousands of workers migrated to California with a hope of achieving ‘The American Dream.’ Steinbeck was interested in those who strived for a better life and those who had hopes and dreams. George and Lennie have these dreams, the dream to “get a little stake” and to “live off the fatta the lan’” But what binds them together is their trust that keeps them moving.

In view of the potential harm of whistleblowing, there was also an option to not do anything (Bok, 1980). Woodford could choose to be silent about the irregularities in the financial activities of the company and retain the benefits that come with working as a high-profile executive in Olympus. The problem is that, doing nothing was tantamount to allowing Kikukawa and the board continue stealing money from the company while making the public believe that Olympus was going well. His effort paid off. His exposure of the scandal became the talk of the press, and the executives of Olympus were left with no other choice but to come clean (Greenfeld, 2013).

This tragic event sent Wall Street into a complete frenzy and took out millions of investors. Over the next few years, consumer investment and spending decreased. This caused sharp declines in manufacturing production and rising levels of unemployment. By 1933, 13 plus million Americans were unemployed and nearly half of the country’s banks failed (Coker, 2005). Thanks to the reform and relief measures placed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt helped diminish the most horrible effects of the Great Depression.

As a result of the stock market crash, many families suddenly went into severe debt and lost everything they had. It was October 29, 1929 when this day in the United States got the name of Black Tuesday because of the darkness that had set into their lives. The Great Depression took place until 1939, and it was during those ten years millions of Americans lost their jobs and the rate of unemployment hit the highest it has ever been. Families were compelled to sell their homes, belongings and did not make enough money to afford enough food. The movie Cinderella Man (2005) by Ron Howard, is based on the true story of James J. Braddock, famous boxer, who had it all before the Great Depression.

The Great Depression The United States fell into a growing hole of financial problems, called The Great Depression. As a country, we became poor because of the stock market crashing. Millions of Americans were losing jobs, and the leader of our country was facing more problems by the second. “By the 1930’s over 13 million Americans lost their jobs. The United States lost so much money that incomes were reduced by 40%,” (Degrace).

This caused them to lose many lives due to this. Natural disasters like an earthquake and flood killed many and them, then plague wiped out thousands of people. This caused Rome to become weak because many people in the army died and many people that helped run Rome died. But then because of the floods and earthquake it killed many people and destroyed many things which really put Rome in a tight spot. “The second year of the reign of Valens (366 CE)... the Roman world was shaken by a violent and destructive earthquake.” “But the tide soon returned with the weight of an immense flood which was severely felt on the coast of sicily, Greece, and Egypt… Fifty thousand persons had lost their lives in the flood.” After Rome lost 50,000 people in the flood the plague killed thousands more.

People all over the country were all impacted by this prolonged recession. Many people slumped into poverty and became homeless and unemployed citizens. This immense downturn was due to overproduction, the Wall Street crash, and the weak banking system, the European recession, the Gold Standard and the policies implemented by the Hoover administration. The depression lasted for over a decade before an economic upturn began to take hold. This marked the end of the Great Depression in the 1930’s.

It caused the American manufacturers a great deal of troubles as domestic products have gradually lost their competitiveness with each passing year. On the other hand, due to the wide disparity of labor costs between the US and Mexico, large numbers of US manufacturing facilities relocated to Mexico in the hope of saving costs. Hence, in 1997 three years after the enactment of NAFTA, the US has lost more than 400,000 jobs which was described as a “trade debacle” . Also last year, according to the American largest labor union, the AFL-CIO, the NAFTA deal led to “an exodus of at least 700,000 jobs” , which almost doubled the record from 17 years ago. During a democratic primary debate in 2007, the then Senator Obama took dim views of NAFTA when he was running for the presidency.

The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history, which lasted from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Spending began to drop, and it caused declines in employment and some companies began to lay off workers. By 1933, the Great Depression reached its lowest point and millions of Americans were unemployed. The 1920s consisted of dramatic social and political change.