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Hey Robert must be a hot day in New York you are fanning yourself like a Regency era heroin. It has been pretty humid here this July, but I think I finally found something that might be able to cool me down.

Wait, is that a copy of the latest beige book?

Are you, in in fact fanning yourself

with an obscure government document

about the latest economic conditions of the United States?

Let me explain.

I was reading it as we do here every time it's released and it talks about how the

labor market in some states is cooling and how inflation in many sectors is

mild and so I wanted some of that economic cooling on my face.

I think you are really stretching the metaphor this time Robert even for the Beigey Awards. Yeah.

Maybe you should just like do the thing.

Okay, okay.

It's the Beigey Awards.

Our eight times a year salute to the art and science of telling stories about the economy.

I'm Robert Smith.

And I'm Whelan Wong.

It's a sleepy summer and the Beige book depicts a pretty dreamy economy, but the book does contain some nightmares

for a few essential businesses.

We will tell you those stories, give out the awards, and make this joint even cooler after the break. Support for this podcast and the following message come from Wise, the app that makes

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