This page provides access to the Beige Book, published eight times per year. Each Federal Reserve Bank gathers anecdotal information on current economic conditions in its district through reports from bank and branch directors, and interviews with key business contacts, economists, market experts, and other sources. The Beige Book summarizes this information by district and sector, and is available from 1970 on.

Concepts

banking, banks, currency, economy, money, monetary policy

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Additional Tags

bank, beige book, federal open market committee, federal reserve bank, federal reserve board, federal reserve system

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)