NPR. Hey Robert, looks like you just went to the grocery store.
Will you show me your haul?
Yes, I decided to buy all the items mentioned in the most recent beige book.
Good list.
The beige book is our favorite obscure government document here at The Indicator.
It gives insight into how local economies are doing.
And Robert, you went super local, hyper local.
Yeah, of course.
The beige book says that beef prices are up, so I bought some hamburger.
And eggs and dairy products, they're cheaper in some places, according to the beige book.
So I got a deal on those.
And what's that peeking out of your bag?
Corn?
I did get a few cobs.
The book says that corn prices are down.
The only question now is, can you make a beige book recipe with this stuff?
You know, if you have one of those new fangled fridges that you connect to Wi-Fi,
it tells you what to make with the random stuff inside.
I feel like it would tell you, make a really strange frittata.
Frittata is always the answer when you don't know what to make.