The International Monetary Fund warns that the global financial system is more vulnerable now than at any time since the 2008 financial crisis.

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IMF warns of new threat to banks

Scores of area nonprofit agencies that serve the homeless are feeling uncertain about their futures in the wake of news that an annual downtown walkathon sponsored by troubled mortgage giant Fannie Mae will end after this year’s Nov. 19 event on the Mall. Fannie Mae, which has suffered since the 2008 economic meltdown, announced quietly in June plans to replace the big walk on the Mall with local mini-walks, a move that agency spokeswoman Amy Bonitatibus said is an expansion of the program. But many of the nonprofit agencies that provide services to the Washington area’s nearly 12,000 homeless people say they are concerned that the smaller walks won’t raise the same amount of money or public awareness as a big national Mall event. Read full article > >

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Homeless walkathon on Mall to end in November