The Beigie Awards: Great (inflation) expectations

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🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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It's time to award our last Beigie of the year! And we find out that reading the Beige Book from back to front makes all the difference in the world.

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1:04.4	Hmm, except for inflation.
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