“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.
Refile News subprime investigations continue with today’s focus on Citigroup and HSBC. A twenty-nine page document by watchdog organization Household – HSBC Watch documents twenty years of build-up to subprime, while Columbia Journalism Review and a 2003 feature in Southern Exposure magazine look at Citigroup.
HSBC Plc, one of the world’s largest global banks, recently lost a bid to delay a lawsuit by investors in a Dublin mutual fund who claim the bank failed them in its role as custodian for money that was lost in Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.
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 [...]
