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New President Brings Expertise to Mpls Fed
Posted on October 15th, 2009 No commentsNarayana Kocherlakota took over the president’s chair at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank on Oct. 8. But although the region may acknowledge the importance of the University of Minnesota economist’s new job, most of us don’t know much about the opportunities it gives him to boost a still struggling Midwestern economy. Read more in Minnesota Finance and Commerce.
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Mpls. Fed Predicts More Unemployment
Posted on December 17th, 2008 No commentsThe economic downturn will continue in 2009 in the Upper Plains, with unemployment rates rising and recovery in the residential real estate market expected to take more than a year, economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis say. In recent surveys, business leaders in Minnesota and Wisconsin were more pessimistic than in other states, Forbes.com reported.