Feb 12 2009
Nearly 1 billion starving worldwide
The increasing price of food has spiked the number of hunger-stricken people in the world by 40 million to reach 923 million in 2008.According to a recent report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), more people will fall under the undernourished category if the current economic trend continues in the [...]
Jan 17 2009
First bank failures of ‘09
The financial crisis has claimed its first two banks in 2009 at an approximate cost to the FDIC of more than $200 million.