{"id":12260,"date":"2011-03-03T10:55:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T15:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=12260"},"modified":"2011-03-03T10:55:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T15:55:58","slug":"feds-beige-book-color-coded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/03\/feds-beige-book-color-coded\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed&#8217;s Beige Book &#8211; Color Coded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Making it easy to understand the economic reports, we like to simply color code the &#8220;good&#8221; and the &#8220;not so good&#8221; areas.If there is not color coding, that means that there is no real positive or negative from the information.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the report continues to show that the U.S. is still in a manufacturing recovery that is plugging along. Housing is still a wildcard and that will take some time to sort out. One thing we know is that until<!--more--> the government stops supplying the banks with unlimited funds at ZERO interest rates, there is no incentive for them to lend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fed Says Changes In Loan Demand `Mixed&#8217; Across 12 Districts<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Fed Says Most Regions Saw Increase In Non-Financial Services<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>All Fed Banks Except St. Louis Reported Growth In Manufacturing<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Several Fed Banks Said Commercial Real Estate Sales Improved<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Fed Banks Said Level Of Home Sales, Construction `Remained Low&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Fed: Retail Sales Rose In All Regions Except Richmond, Atlanta<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fed Banks Said Economy Expanded At `Modest To Moderate Pace&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Fed Says Labor Market Strengthened On Manufacturing, Retail<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Fed Says Manufacturing, Retail Reported `Rising Input Costs&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Fed Says Wage Pressures Were `Minimal Across All Districts&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Fed Says `Lending Standards Remained Tight&#8217; In Most Regions<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making it easy to understand the economic reports, we like to simply color code the &#8220;good&#8221; and the &#8220;not so good&#8221; areas.If there is not color coding, that means that there is no real positive or negative from the information. Overall, the report continues to show that the U.S. is still in a manufacturing recovery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[481],"class_list":["post-12260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","tag-economy","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}