AgLetter reports farmland values in the Seventh Federal Reserve District for the first quarter of 2018 were largely the same as a year ago. Values for “good” agricultural land in the first quarter of 2018 were 1 percent higher than in the fourth quarter of 2017.

In conjunction with National Small Business Week, the 12 Reserve Banks of the Federal Reserve System have launched a new website called Fed Small Business, which will serve as a hub for the Reserve Banks’ small business research, analysis and thought leadership.

What are the risks of pricing new insurance products? Chicago Fed economists examine the mispricing of long-term care insurance—which led to the insolvency of insurer Penn Treaty.