While in Minneapolis, I toured the Midtown Global Market, a multicultural marketplace that serves as an inspirational reminder of what can be accomplished when public and private resources combine to support minority businesses. Research and data improvements Finally, we spent some time today discussing the need for better data and analysis to monitor and understand small business credit flows.
As a research institution, the Federal Reserve is always looking for opportunities to improve data, and we already have taken a number of steps in this direction.