Breitbart Business Digest: Beige Book Provides Gloomy Outlook for U.S. Economy

Beige Book’s Bidenflation Blahs

There is a running joke in the Breitbart virtual newsroom that some of the most interesting economic news comes out of something with the blandest name imaginable: the Beige Book. I’m not sure who the brand manager is for the Beige Book, but they should be put on the unemployment line.

The Beige Book is a report produced and published by the Federal Reserve eight times a year based on data and interviews from each of the 12 regional Fed banks. One thing that makes it especially interesting is its inclusion of qualitative information, as opposed to just quantitative, which allows for eagle-eyed readers (and investors) to spot trends in economic conditions that can’t easily be summarized in charts

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