Spend a little time looking at Google trends and you’ll notice that no one really gave a crap about the FDIC until fairly recently.

Hmm.

We wonder why.

The FDIC is responding to the renewed interest in their services with some PSAs featuring everyone’s favorite personal finance guru and striped shirt aficionado, Suze Orman.

They’ve also launched a friendly-looking website that will help you, the supposedly insured, make sure your money is protected. You can check it out here.

Oh, and he’s another topic that Google’s New York users have found oddly compelling in the past month.

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