The Capital Area Food Bank is the largest non-profit food bank in the Washington, D.C. area and a member of America's Second Harvest. In addition to serving the area with food, it also provides nutritional education to the local community. As a result, Washingtonian magazine named it one of the twenty best charities in the region. The Capital Area Food Bank, like most food banks, operates with the assistance of volunteers from the area; annually over 12,000 donate their time to help sort food, teach classes, and perform other tasks for the food bank. The Capital Area Food Bank also works with other organizations in the area dedicated to providing food to residents from Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia, and Montgomery and Prince George's Counties in Maryland.

The Fed has been slowly lowering the fed funds rate since it started controlling it back in 1982. Basic economics says that the power of a central bank depends largely on how they control interest rates. Following this logic, we can see that the Fed has been slowly loosing its power to provide liquidity relative to previous recessions.

By Mohammed Abbas MANAMA (Reuters) - Islamic banks have been largely shielded from the U.S. mortgage crisis, which may even open doors for expansion beyond traditional strongholds in Arab and Asian markets, Bahrain's central bank governor...

The European Central Bank has an important decision to make this week, as it contemplates 3.2% Euro zone inflation and global economic softening.... read on

Indonesia's powerful anti-corruption commission has named the central bank governor and two senior subordinates as official suspects in an investigation into alleged bribing of legislators to facilitate an amendment

California has a central archive accessible on the Internet to determine if you have refunds that are unclaimed; such as insurance, bank accounts, etc.