Determine whether or not subsidies are available and the new website design to ensure that consumers are aware they can also apply by phone. The Affordable Care act is not just a website. Its much more. For the vast majority of americans, for 85 of americans who already have Health Insurance through your employer or medicare or medicaid, you dont need to sign up for coverage through a website at all. Republicans wasting no time in attempting to pivot off their disastrous strategy to defund the entire law have been eager to use technical failures as evidence of legislative fiasco. Obama care is indeed a train wreck. A visit to the website is kind of like a trip to the department of Motor Vehicles in your state. Its a failure. You know, the government simply isnt going to be able to get this job done correctly. Even if you were lucky enough, bob, to get on to sign up, you are going to find youve got fewer choices and higher premiums. As of yesterday, 476,000 americans had applied for hea
Tonight. Fraud and potential criminal conduct were at the heart of the financial crisis. More than four years later. No one going to jail, no individual is being held accountable. Th is totally about what went on on wall street. Frontline investigates why no wall street executives have gone to jail. The fbi wasnt aiming high enough. There was a definite sense that justice backed off. Did the government fail . Martin smith a number of people told us that you didnt make this a top priority. Well, im sorry if they think that, because i made it an incredibly top priority. So youre telling me that not one executive on wall street committed provable fraud . I mean, i just dont believe that. Tonight ofrontline, the untouchables. Frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontline is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdan
Substantial. The nasdaq composite is up half of 1 . The swing is not even 100 points. We started off in the red and now we are in the green. We got in home prices that rose the fastest in seven years. This group is doing really well. Kb homes up 7. 7 . We saw double digit Revenue Growth for kb homes. Back to you. Lori thank you, nicole. Gaining 12. 4 from a year ago. There are some concerns about the home price gains peaking. Adam news alert for you, Eric Schneiderman seeking the help of washington, d. C. To help prevent highfrequency traders from getting information earlier than the rest. They paid thompson and reuters for that information. Speaking at the bloomberg market, the attorney general had this to say. We are seeing something far more insidious than insider trading. Small coop of powerful groups inside the market are able to use soon to be Public Information combined with highfrequency trading. Adam he says regulators face several challenges tracking and preventing these. He
Incredibly top priority. So youre telling me that not one executive on wall street committed provable fraud . I mean, i just dont believe that. Tonight ofrontline, the untouchables. Frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontline is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. And by the frontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. Although this downturn started in the housing sector and in the financial sector, youre seeing a lot of things being hit. Todays numbers suggest job losses are accelerating. Thats the biggest loss since 1974. The unemployment rate. Narrator in 2009, wall street b
1974. The unemployment rate. Narrator in 2009, wall street bankers were on the defensive. The Great American mortgage bubble had burst. This is a huge amount of money. Narrator the economy was in ruins and wall street bankers were being blamed. Bankers admitted they had miscalculated. But they were also worried that they could be held criminally liable for fraud. He and president obama will continue to work on. Narrator with a new administration arriving in washington, bankers and their attorneys expected investigations and at least some prosecutions. 150 billion in mortgagebacked securities. Smith was there a sense that there were going to be prosecutions of alleged fraud related to the mortgage crisis . I think there was that expectation. I think people had seen the financial crisis. There was obviously a lot of conduct that had gone on that was improper. And i think people were expecting to see some substantial prosecutions. The men and women who duped wouldbe homeowners, who defrau