NPR.
It has been a hard summer for our nation's central bank, the Federal Reserve.
Right, the president has been on the attack,
calling the Fed chair Jay Powell a numbskull, that's a quote.
And the White House is looking into a remodel of the Fed's historic headquarters,
which ran over budget.
I wouldn't blame the staff for wanting to take a vacation right now,
but they're clearly still hard at work.
Last week, right on schedule,
the Federal Reserve published the Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions.
Better known as the beige book.
And so if the Fed can work through the noise and do their job,
we can work through the noise and do our job.
Which is to read the beige book cover to cover and find stuff we think is provocative,
informative, and even a little bit funny.
You gotta keep that sense of humor.
It's the Beige 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 Adrian Ma.