Beige Book word count
Beige Book "uncertain" 33 times, as of 14 Oct 2026. Top word in the latest Beige Book. Beige Book word count and the other weird recession indicators are on one page, each with its latest reading.
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The Fed's Beige Book gathers what businesses tell the 12 Federal Reserve Banks, eight times a year. Each edition here is its national summary plus the 12 District reports, from federalreserve.gov.
Words are counted as whole words in any case, with their plain forms: uncertain counts uncertainty; tariff counts tariffs; slow counts slowed, slowing, slower, slowly and slowdown; recession counts recessions. AI counts only in capitals, plus "artificial intelligence".
The headline is whichever of the five words the latest edition uses most. Each edition is dated by the day it came out: the one the Fed calls August 2026 came out on September 2.
Source: Federal Reserve. As of 14 Oct 2026.