The Federal Reserve System (also the Federal Reserve; informally The Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. Created in 1913 by the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, it is a quasi-public (part private, part government) banking system composed of (1) the presidentially-appointed Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C.; (2) the Federal Open Market Committee; (3) 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks located in major cities throughout the nation acting as fiscal agents for the U.S. Treasury, each with its own nine-member board of directors; (4) numerous private U.S. member banks, which subscribe to required amounts of non-transferable stock in their regional Federal Reserve Banks; and (5) various advisory councils. Currently, Ben Bernanke serves as the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Mexico has cheap food and housing, warm weather, and lots of beaches. Find out what you need to know if you are planning on retiring in Mexico.

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Add up $700 game tickets to airfare, hotel, food and souvenirs, and a trip to the Super Bowl this year could cost more than $5,000. And that's just the beginning. You might also want to start shoring up that bank account, maybe put the rest of your 2008 vacation plans on hold. This journey to the center of the sports universe will take its toll...

The Ontario Association of Food Banks (OAFB) and StormFisher Biogas, an Ontario-based renewable energy utility, have joined forces to launch Plan Zero, a province-wide social enterprise that will generate renewable electricity from food industry surplus and by-products that are destined for landfills.

Business Journal Prediction: Only 3 industry sectors, Technology, AD/PR, and Health Care are predicted to have a good outlook for 2008. Will the dour predictions prove true for the other sectors – airlines, banking, energy, food, hospitality, insurance, manufacturing, med tech, media nonprofits, real estate, retail, and sports business?