Providers and Consumer Resources

What 'global' really means (Philly.com)

20 Jul 2008

The late and widely adored mid-20th-century comedian Jimmy Durante, aka "The Snoz," employed a tag line that encapsulates the central theme of this early-21st-century look at how the planet-wide economic order now works.

CENTRAL NY BUSINESS NEWS (The Post-Standard)

20 Jul 2008

• FDIC insures bank accounts How safe is your cash? It was a scary sight: More than 100 customers of IndyMac Bancorp in California lining up to withdraw their money because of worries that the bank, hit hard by losses in the mortgage market and recently taken over by regulators, was about to fail.

Banking on carbon trading: Can banks stop climate change? (CNN.com)

20 Jul 2008

Who would think the banks would land the job of sorting out the world's climate change problems?