# The economics of budgeting | Freightonomics Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/freightcasts-478950/the-economics-of-budgeting-freightonomics Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/freightcasts-478950/the-economics-of-budgeting-freightonomics.md Podcast: [FreightCasts](https://stenobird.com/podcast/freightcasts-478950) Published: 2026-08-27T19:27:00+00:00 Episode link: https://chtbl.com/track/894889/traffic.megaphone.fm/FREIGHT7853900048.mp3 Audio file: https://chtbl.com/track/894889/traffic.megaphone.fm/FREIGHT7853900048.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/freightcasts-478950/episodes/the-economics-of-budgeting-freightonomics Duration seconds: 3065 ## Resource Ben Peterson comes on to discuss budgeting strategies for shippers heading into budget season, plus a slough of economic data to cover.  ⁠Follow the Freightonomics Podcast⁠ ⁠Other FreightWaves Shows⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/freightcasts-478950/episodes/the-economics-of-budgeting-freightonomics/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/freightcasts-478950/the-economics-of-budgeting-freightonomics.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.