False profits or false prophet?

虚假利润或是虚假先知？

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For example, some people want to make profits from their false promises such as those offered to customers by enterprises.

例如，有些人通过提供给客户错误的承诺来增加企业的利润。

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False reporting of profits caused Enron and WorldCom stockholders to lose their entire investments and sent corporate officers to jail.

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Second, private-sector decisions about saving and investment may sometimes be based on false hopes about profits and stockmarket returns hard to believe, given Wall Street's fine record these past few years, but true nonetheless.

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Ms Watkins was not slow to blame former Enron boss Jeffrey Skilling and chief finance officer Andrew Fastow as the villains of the piece, who deliberately sought by false accounting to inflate Enron's profits and conceal its losses.

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