2007, 6.5 million nonfarm jobs have been lost and the unemployment rate has nearly doubled. Today US marshals began the seizure of the luxury $7 million Manhattan apartment of imprisoned fraudster Bernard Madoff and his wife, Ruth. A spokesman with the US Marshals Service said marshals were carrying out the orders of a judge made in the days before Madoff was sentenced on Monday to an effective life term for his multibillion-dollar fraud. Today the Exelon Corp sweetened its hostile takeover ...