jill disis joins us. she is over that story. een the take away [audio drop] from the beige book? joe: i think you nailed -- jill: i think you nailed it. it's that consumers look like they are pulling back on spending. we certainly saw those in discretionary spending, durable goods, some of the spending on furniture. [audio drop] as you and i know, they are so, talk so much about being [audio drop] i thought really gives them more data that feels forward-looking, a little more present than what some backward looking official data make look like. as a labor market starts to cool, you're starting to see those price sensitivities among consumers. that's where you see that slowdown, that pullback among consumers. kriti: that's going to be something i think measured perhaps quite well with the pcw deflator as well -- pce deflator as well. a lot a people view that as this really important for not only the federal reserve but traders. jill i: think that at this point, the fed's preferred gauge after all is that core super court pce infla