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The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis says that the regional economic outlook is optimistic for Montana

Montana doesn’t have a lot in common with North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, northwestern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and yet, because of political pressures in 1913, all of these places were grouped into one giant economic region.

Collectively, we are called the 9th District and our economies are monitored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, which is one of 12 regional banks that, together with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., make up the Federal Reserve System – the central bank of the United States.

On Wednesday, the Minneapolis Fed issued its 2009 economic outlook for the 9th District http://www.minneapolisfed.org/news_events/rel/2008/2009outlook.cfm .

By BETSY COHEN of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/articles/2008/12/18/news/local/news04.txt

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