The Beigie Awards: Inflation, refrigeration and apple cultivation

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but it's keeping the Fed up at night. For this month's Beigie Awards, we look at how high energy prices and a strong dollar are disrupting the global apple market.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:13.0	Hey Robert, it looks like you're cutting a lot of tan fabric there.
0:17.0	Yeah, I'm trying to make a Halloween costume, but all I have is this light brown color.
0:22.0	I don't know, maybe I can go as a, as a graham cracker.
0:24.0	I could put some white pillows in there and then you could be a smore.
0:27.0	Oh, that's good. Or if I draped the fabric over me like this, I could be the desert from the movie Dune.
0:34.0	Love the giant Sanworm vibes, but have you considered going as the beige book?
0:39.0	The beige book. You mean the bicorderly report of economic conditions published by the Federal Reserve
0:45.0	in containing illuminating anecdotes about the 12 Federal Reserve districts?
0:48.0	Uh, yeah, you would have to explain that to people though.
0:51.0	Sure, sure. I'll just ring the doorbell for trick or treat and when they open it, I'll say...
0:56.0	It's the Bajia Awards Halloween edition. I'm your ghost.
1:04.0	Robert Smith.
1:05.0	Definitely scary and I'm waaaling waaang.
1:09.0	October is a time to exercise demons, to face up to our fears.
1:15.0	And the report known as the beige book has a lot of stories that might keep you under the covers at night.
1:20.0	Every time the beige book comes out, we give an award to the very best anecdote inside.
1:25.0	The beigey today is all treats, no tricks, after the break.
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1:49.0	The beige book is made up of stories, little anecdotes from the 12 different Federal Reserve regions.
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