Beige Book

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The Beige Book is a periodic Federal Reserve report that summarizes current economic conditions across the United States based on anecdotal information from businesses and other contacts.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Federal Reserve report
economic report
survey of economic conditions
access publicly available
basedOn anecdotal information from businesses
anecdotal information from community contacts
reports from economists
reports from market experts
compiledBy Federal Reserve Bank staff
compiledFrom reports from the 12 Federal Reserve Districts
countryOfPublication United States
dataType anecdotal information
qualitative assessments
format narrative qualitative report
frequency approximately every six to eight weeks
eight times per year
geographicCoverage 12 Federal Reserve Districts
United States
hasPart district-level summaries of economic conditions
hasSection district reports
national summary
language English
maintainedBy Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
medium PDF document
online publication
namedAfter color of its original cover
officialName Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District
predecessor Red Book
publishedBy Federal Reserve System
publisher Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
releaseSchedule about two weeks before each FOMC meeting
startTime 1983
subject United States economy
agricultural conditions
banking and credit conditions
business conditions
consumer spending
energy sector conditions
labor market conditions
manufacturing activity
price developments
real estate markets
regional economic conditions
services sector activity
wage developments
usedBy Federal Open Market Committee
usedFor assessing current economic conditions
complementing quantitative economic data
informing monetary policy deliberations

Referenced by (5)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Red Book ("Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions (Beige Book)")
followedBy
Beige Book ("Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District")
officialName
Red Book
predecessorOf
Federal Reserve System
publishes
Red Book
replacedBy

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