Introduction: Paul Sweeney is a veteran, award-winning journalist with special expertise in business, banking and financial services. A graduate of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Sweeney has written for top national publications, including The New York Times, Business Week, Institutional Investor, Inc. Magazine and The Boston Globe. Sweeney, moreover, has published articles on a wide range of subjects: consumer, labor, occupational safety and health and the environment; national and international politics; investigative journalism and white-collar crime; and in-depth personality profiles. Sweeney has also worked full-time at daily newspapers as a general assignment reporter and business writer in Texas and Florida.