Need workers? Why not charter a private jet?

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

It's time for another edition of the Beigie Awards! Today, our winner comes through with one of the best anecdotes in Beigie history with a story about a Montana construction company that flew in workers via a private jet.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:07.0	We are out here in front of the indicator theater in Los Angeles, USA, and central bankers
0:18.8	from across the nation are walking the beige carpet in their finest designer clothes.
0:24.8	I spotted the New York Federal Reserve Bank dressed all in gold, La Mée, a salute obviously
0:30.7	to their massive vaults of gold they have in their Manhattan headquarters.
0:34.5	Very fancy.
0:36.0	The Dallas Federal Reserve is sporting embroidered tuxes and of course cowboy boots.
0:41.9	That so they can kick some butt.
0:43.6	It's that night of night.
0:45.4	The awards ceremony that economics nerds have been waiting for.
0:49.3	Although I mean it does happen about every six weeks so they haven't been waiting that
0:53.2	long.
0:54.2	The excitement is palpable.
0:56.0	It is.
0:57.0	It's the moment when we celebrate economic storytelling in an obscure government report.
1:03.2	It's the Bayesian Awards.
1:09.7	I'm Robert Smith.
1:11.0	And I'm Wailin Wong.
1:12.4	Tonight we will give the award to the best anecdote in the government publication known
1:17.4	as the beige book.
1:19.4	We do the reading.
1:20.4	You just sit back and enjoy the winners.
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