STAMFORD, Connecticut - February 9, 2009 - Hundreds of people trying to save their homes from foreclosure flocked to Connecticut's wealthy Gold Coast this weekend to give financial kingpins a piece of their minds.

WASHINGTON - February 9, 2009 - General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC may be forced into bankruptcy by the U.S. government to assure repayment of $17.4 billion in federal bailout loans, a course of action the automakers claim would destroy them.

SAN FRANCISCO, Kalifornia - February 9, 2009 - More than 1,000 banks may fail during the next three to five years as the recession intensifies and loan losses climb, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets estimated on Monday.

HONG KONG, China - February 5, 2009 - Panasonic said on Wednesday that it was shedding 15,000 jobs, the second significant layoff in Japan’s electronics industry in less than a week. It was the latest example of how Japanese companies, exporters in particular, were scrambling to cut costs as demand evaporates.

LONDON, England - February 4, 2009 - Prime Minister Gordon Brown appeared to acknowledge for the first time today that the world economy was heading for a 1930s-style Depression.

NEW YORK - February 4 2009 - U.S. credit card delinquencies hit a record high in January, and further deterioration is likely as the economy slows down and unemployment rises, according to Fitch Ratings.

SACRAMENTO, Kalifornia - February 2, 2009 - Kalifornia, the eighth largest economy in the world, is broke.