Beige Quotes

What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige. - Max Cannon

What really drove the two-year to the high yield of the day was the two-year note auction, and the Beige Book didn't do anything to help. - John Canavan

We walked in last September and told her we had been beige people, but we wanted to rejuvenate our house. - Maggie Smith

There was a perception that life here was-I won't say gray, that's hard for me-but beige. - Hanna Holborn Gray

There is a clear change in the tone of the Beige Book, but not all the news is good. - Ian Shepherdson

The sentiment I get from the Beige Book, along with listening to quarterly earnings conference calls, and just the general tone of my conversations with people who have their fingers on the trigger of hiring, say companies are just not doing much of it. - Richard Yamarone

The room was too warm, with the sort of cat-barf-beige carpet that has been standard for meeting rooms for a millennium because it hides coffee stains. - John Barnes

The March Beige Book paints a clear picture of an economy straining at the seams. Significantly, compared to recent Beige Books, there was more detail, and a more worrying tone, to the comments on the labor market. - Ian Shepherdson

The main focus this week is what the beige book is saying about the consumer sector in the U.S. because the consumer is absolutely crucial to the performance of the US economy over the course of this year - and that of course means the performance of the global economy. - Paul Donovan

The Fed's beige book contains a little something for both the bull and bear camps but has a marginally negative tone to it. - Tony Crescenzi