“The Obama administration has formed a new task force to target financial fraud, replacing an earlier corporate fraud task force. Attorney General Eric Holder says the new group will have a broader scope.
“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing” is translated from Russian by Leo Tolstoy, “War and Peace”. Many attribute the original quote to Edmund Burke who said “The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing.”
The US House of Representatives on Friday passed a bill aimed at preventing another financial crisis. Will a House-passed financial reform bill leave big risks, or will it solve the problem once and for all?
For home owners with government insured home loans the question of foreclosure and resulting obligations to the US Government is anything but simple. The Federal Government needs money.
As the US economy plunged into recession and job losses mounted debt collectors started calling. In a new CNN report the Federal Trade Commission is exposed in another case of potential regulatory failure.
This is the layoff and unemployment news report for mid-January through mid-February. We receive input from over 100 sources and call it like we see it. Don’t be confused by conflicting news reports and government statistics. This is what is really happening in America, at the worker’s level.
This is the Refile News job loss and layoff roundup for mid-January 2010. This report was written on January 18th, and compiled from over 100 sources. This report does not include city, county, and state government layoffs unless there was a significant event.
As December 2009 comes to a close we saw no mass layoffs of 50 or more from the same location. For three days our research input reflected only city, county, and state layoffs only. Refile News saw this as a positive sign that layoffs were slowing down but the economy [...]
