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The richest state no one thinks is rich
South Dakota holds more than $900 billion in trust assets -- more than the GDP of most countries -- because state law lets a trust run forever, with a level of secrecy Delaware and Nevada can't match. Almost nobody outside the trust industry knows this is where it happens.
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Where this connects
Why your credit card bill comes from Sioux Falls
In February 1980, a broke state and a bank losing money on credit cards made a secret deal. South Dakota repealed its own interest-rate c...
Every satellite photo of Earth lives in Sioux Falls
Fifty years of Landsat -- the satellite program that has photographed every square mile of Earth's land surface, repeatedly, since 1972 -...
The wealth hiding in flyover country
North Dakota and South Dakota are the two smallest, least-covered states in the country by nearly every measure this site tracks. They ar...
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