feeling their pain. this is the biggest point drop that has ever been seen. we are in the midst of a serious financial crisis and the federal government is responding with decisive action. these guys have been gambling with the house money for years and it s our job to bail them out? the largest swindle in wall street history, and alleged 50 if you million dollar ponzi scheme by bernard madoff. you belong in jail, you criminal! the pardon is over. if there was any company that could make energy cool, it was enron. the texas energy broker treated electricity like any other commodity. it buys and sells billions of dollars worth of energy, every day. it s the largest company of its kind in the world. enron is a company that deals with everyone with absolute integrity. we play by all the rules and stand by our work. we mean what we say . ken lay was the original ceo, he ran enron when the company was created out of the merger of two pipeline companies. he seem
Economy that has stood its ground was the home market. hopes of real estate will offer not only a safe haven but will gain value. john and kamal carter are joining the growing number of first-time homebuyers, convinced the time is right thanks to dropping interes t rates. it s kind of amazing where like we ve got to buy something this week. everyone was talking about property. they saw buying a house as the main way to get wealth. house prices kept going up so it seemed like a no risk no- brainer thing to do . across the usa on mortgage applications at an all-time high last week . current homeowners taking advantage of lower interest rates, too, refinancing their homes. as americans seek to lower payments and put more cash in their wallets. everyone wants a piece of the american dream. there was this rampant fear of missing out. people started flipping houses, they were quitting their jobs to buy houses, and to sell them
jurors heard an audio recording of a barely coherent jackson just weeks before his death, and saw a picture of him dead on a hospital gurney. cnn s don lemon is live from los angeles, he talked to the jackson family. were you inside the courtroom, don. set the scene for us. reporter: ah, good morning to you, carol, and good morning to you, ali, as well. how do you say this? yesterday, when it all started, the jackson family walked in, and they were they are a strong family. i ve never seen them together this much, the funeral, but now they are co-hehesantx and walken together supporting their mom, katherine jackson who is a strong woman. when they dimmed the light, played videotape and played that audiotape of michael jackson, they had to play it twice, because the first time you couldn t hear it. it was heart wrenching, and everyone sort of looked at everyone saying, is that michael jackson? hear it for yourself and then we ll talk about it. [ mumbling ] when people le