FRED has added 27 data series from the Survey of Regional Conditions and Expectations (SORCE) reported by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Information is collected eight times per year through a survey of business and community leaders in the … Continue reading
FRED has launched a new version of its application programming interface (API). An API enables users to write programs and build applications that retrieve economic data from FRED. FRED’s API Version 2 allows account holders to retrieve observations for all … Continue reading
Starting January 5, 2026, FRED user accounts will no longer be able to save archival data from our ALFRED website. Other content in your FRED user account will not be affected and will be available as usual. The data in … Continue reading
Visualize the federal funds rate This assignment provides instructions on building the graph below and includes suggested writing prompts for out-of-class assignments. From the FRED Blog The post “Rates related to monetary policy” uses data from the Board of Governors … Continue reading
FRED has added 12 data series of temporary open market operations and tri-party collateral rate data reported by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Additional data on tri-party general collateral transactions include series on transaction volume and the 1st, … Continue reading
Visualizing the unemployment rate This assignment provides instructions on building the graph below and includes suggested writing prompts for out-of-class assignments. From the FRED Blog The post “Why does women’s employment change with the seasons? An answer from the NBER” … Continue reading
If funding for U.S. federal government agencies is not renewed by October 1, 2025, some U.S. data series updates may be suspended. The FRED team will monitor the situation and update the series in the FRED database as soon as new data … Continue reading
Visualizing consumer price inflation This essay describes how to customize the data units in a FRED graph to show the year-over-year growth rate in the consumer price index. From the FRED Blog The post “Egg price deflation and fresh chicken … Continue reading
FRED has added 20 data series about work-from-home practices in the United States reported by Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis. Information is collected through the U.S. Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes (SWAA). This survey gathers … Continue reading
Visualizing GDP’s growth rate This essay describes how to customize the data units in a FRED graph to show the compounded annual rate of change in gross domestic product. From the FRED Blog The post “Real GDP growth by state: … Continue reading