The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago is looking to update its Beige Book Dealer Survey. This survey will be combined with information received from other economic sectors and will be summarized and inserted into the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book. The Beige Book is the Fed’s update on current business conditions that allows us to see if Main Street conditions match what the statistical data are telling us. The Beige Book is released 2 weeks before each FOMC meeting. The FOMC meeting is the one that decides what to do with monetary policy and short-term interest rates. When the Beige Book is published, nothing will be able to be directly attributed to any one person or firm because the Beige Book is information gathered from hundreds of different sources that is organized by economic sector.

Click here to download the ONE-PAGE survey in Microsoft Word. Then please email completed surveys to Mark Bilek at the CATA. All information will be kept confidential.