Housing dilemma in resort towns

The Indicator from Planet Money

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4.7 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Hot, fresh and kinda salty, the Beige Book is back! This time we're headed to the beach as businesses get ready for summer.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:12.0	Robert Smith, you're carrying an NPR tote bag.
0:15.0	I am!
0:16.0	Summer is just around the corner and so I need to make sure I have all of my beach gear together in one place.
0:23.0	So I have my sunscreen here.
0:26.0	Oh, important.
0:27.0	Oh, don't want to get that all over myself.
0:29.0	I've got a portable radio so I can rock out.
0:32.0	Okay.
0:33.0	Get local public radio station.
0:35.0	Uh-huh.
0:36.0	And a little light beach reading.
0:39.0	This one's called The Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions.
0:44.0	Better known as the Bage Book, the SQA government publication that we are obsessed with here at the indicator.
0:50.0	But I would argue that it's not a beach read.
0:52.0	Yeah, it's a little light on plot, I will admit.
0:55.0	But there are some great lines in there.
0:58.0	Little anecdotes about how the economy is doing.
1:00.0	The only problem with the Bage Book is that when I put it down in the sand, it's really hard to find again.
1:07.0	Because it's beige.
1:08.0	It blends right in.
1:10.0	You know what doesn't blend in, Darien?
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