Copyrighted Image? DMCA | When Wall Street banks started messing with North Dakota by foreclosing on farm properties nearly a century ago, the "Peace Garden State" gave big banking the finger and established its own financial institution. The farms were saved, and the Bank of North Dakota--government interference in the free market in a big way--blossomed into a fiercely protected fixture in the conservative state.
Because all state funds in North Dakota pass through BND, including regulatory and licensing fees, the institution is extremely well-capitalized. Because BND sticks to investing conservatively on behalf of the people and businesses of North Dakota, and ignores hinky transactions such as credit-default swaps, it has weathered the depressions and recessions of the 20th and 21st centuries with little turbulence. |