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Minneapolis Federal Reserve draws third protest in six months

By Chris Steller | 04.25.09 | 3:02 pm

Chanting “End the Fed” and “Audit the Fed,” at least 100 protesters marched around the Federal Reserve Bank in downtown Minneapolis Saturday to kick off a three-hour rally. It was the third protest at the Minneapolis Fed since U.S. government bailouts of the financial industry began last September.

Could be worse: Minneapolis Fed puts unemployment at median for postwar recessions

By Chris Steller | 01.10.09 | 10:57 am

Leave it to a state in the middle of the continent, where extremes of any kind (except weather) are frowned upon, to reassure the world that the country’s current joblessness is right where it should be — at the…