How many times can you say uncertainty in one economic report?

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  Npr.

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  Waylon, what do you think when you hear the word beige?

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  Well, Robert Smith,

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  my first instinct is to think about the government publication known as the Beige Book.

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  Cause you're a nerd.

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  And how we at the Indicator always do a fun show when the Beige Book is released.

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  I mean, we kind of invented the beige franchise in podcasting.

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  So imagine my horror when I discovered

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  that two TikTok influencers are fighting over who owns the beige aesthetic in social media.

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  How very dare they?

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  I do know there is something called the clean girl vibe on the Internet.

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  Women who love to wear neutral and cream and have immaculate minimalist houses.

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  I know nothing about this, being cluttered and maximalist myself.

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  Well,

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  apparently there are two women who do live that way and they're trying to market that same vibe.

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  And one has sued the other for $150,000 for mental anguish.

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  Legal experts are calling it the Sad Beige Lawsuit.

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  Well, that sounds super depressing.

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  So maybe we should emphasize that we invented the happy beige vibe.

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  And I will note that the Beige Book was first published by the Federal Reserve 50, 55 years ago.

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