The Beige Book is published eight times per year by the Federal Reserve Bank. 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 dstrict and sector. An overall summary of the 12 district reports is prepared by a designated Federal Reserve Bank on a rotating basis.
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May 22 - Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben S. Bernanke testified on the economic outlook before the Joint Economic Committee on May 22, 2013. His testimony is below.

Chairman Brady, Vice Chair... >>more

May 22 - The Conference of State Bank Supervisors and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have signed a supervisory coordination framework at the CSBS State-Federal Supervisory Forum in... >>more

May 21 - The FDIC has announced a series of steps intended to provide regulatory relief to financial institutions and facilitate recovery in areas of Oklahoma affected by severe storms and... >>more

May 16 - The FDIC has announced a series of steps intended to provide regulatory relief to financial institutions and facilitate recovery in areas of Illinois affected by severe storms, straight-line... >>more

May 16 - Broad measures of economic activity continued to improve across the Southeast in March, according to the latest Data Digest from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. The monthly report,... >>more