Regional Business and Economics Newspaper
October 2000
Buyer beware
Trends in the payday, title loan and check cashing industries, and related issues pitting consumer choices against consumer protection.
Annual Reports
fedgazetteFringe Banking
- A helping hand, or new age loan sharking?
Amid growing market demand for nonbank financial services, critics decry abuse by and high costs of industry - Will that be cash, check or debtor's hell?
- Minnesota Fringe Banking
- Montana Fringe Banking
- North Dakota Fringe Banking
- South Dakota Fringe Banking
- Wisconsin Fringe Banking
Ninth District Features
- Cruise industry recharts once-popular destinations
- Expanding tourism just the ticket in Ninth District
- Montana's blasting into (aero)space
- Montana fires ignite questions about economic impact
- Regional airports: Fasten your seatbelt
This is the first of a two-part series on regional airports. See Regional airports: Fear of not flying in the January 2001 fedgazette. - Ninth District Cities with Scheduled Air Service
Map: Ninth District Cities with Scheduled Air Service
Banking
- Financial modernization, the FHLB and agricultural banks
- Ninth District bank Web sites become more sophisticated
- Ninth District Bank Web Sites
Table: Percent of reviewed sites that contained the feature as of May 1, 2000 - Banking history reflects the life of a community
Former Minneapolis Fed economist David Dahl reported on 100 years of banking in Lyon County, Minn., at a fall 1999 conference, "Business and Banking in the Countryside," sponsored by the Rural and Regional Studies Program at Southwest State University in Marshall, Minn. Although Dahl's research focused on one rural Minnesota county, his use of banking statistics to illustrate the history of a place may have universal appeal. - Growing Deposits and Loans on the Prairie Eighty-five Years of Banking in Lyon County
- A Chronology of Banking in Lyon County
Appendix 1: Banks in 1916
District Data
- Ag finances improve, but farmers still struggling
Third Quarter 2000 Agricultural Credit Conditions Survey
Special Maps and Charts
State Roundups
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