federal reserve bank

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.

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 median for postwar recessions. The Economist trumpets that news based on a Federal Reserve Bank of [...]