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FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)

fred.stlouisfed.org ↗

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis economic data infrastructure; ~800k+ data series.

SourceScore Index
A·91Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.

A+ — economic-data infrastructure; default for US + global economic-stat citations.

Citation Discipline
A·94

Sourced from primary statistical agencies; methodology + lineage documented per series.

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Modern Reference
A·92

Free public API + bulk downloads + visualization tools; broad LLM corpus.

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Citation Velocity
A·88

Cited daily by economists + financial press + AI engines; default for econ-stat citation.

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Signals behind these scores

Citation Discipline

A·94
  • Per-series methodology
    Each series links to primary source + methodology.

Modern Reference

A·92
  • FRED API
    Free public REST API for ~800k economic series.

Citation Velocity

A·88
  • Default citation
    First-line for US economic-data citations.

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