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BTW, the St. Louis Fed has one of the biggest blessings for your "I can't afford neither Bloomberg nor Refinitiv" amateur economist. The amount of time series a

BTW, the St. Louis Fed has one of the biggest blessings for your "I can't afford neither Bloomberg nor Refinitiv" amateur economist. The amount of time series and the basic ability to do pointwise arithmetic operations is great! All series sorted by popularity: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/tags/series https://fred.stlouisfed.org/tags/series I wish other central banks (in other countries) stepped up to this amazing level.

yingw787 7y ago
Seconded. I (think? don't remember) I did Fed Challenge back in the day, and the econ resources I trusted most was Bloomberg/Economics, CNBC/Economics, and FRED by far: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Fed_Challenge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Fed_Challenge
- baryphonic 7y ago
  I second that. When I did the College Fed Challenge, FRED was my team's go-to source, followed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and National Bureau of Economic Research. We had a little pipeline where we'd take their data and make nicer-looking charts in Excel that we could import into our slide deck. When I'm taking to laymen about economics, I still refer to FRED charts because they're so accessible and the number of series is enormous.