About this site

Economics Guru is a companion data resource for Alfie Meek's Weekly Economic Update. Every chart on this site is built directly from public-data APIs and refreshes automatically on a daily schedule.

Data sources

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

Consumer Price Index, employment, wages.

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)

Interest rates, monetary aggregates, broad macro series.

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)

GDP, personal income, PCE inflation.

U.S. Census Bureau

Retail sales, housing starts, building permits.

Refresh schedule

Data is fetched once per day at approximately 9:30am Eastern time, after the typical morning release window for U.S. economic statistics. The page banner shows the last successful build time. If a release is delayed (for example, during a federal government shutdown), the chart for that period will be blank and a notice will appear above the dashboard.

How a chart is built

For each series, we pull at least two years of monthly observations, compute year-over-year and month-over-month changes, and surface them alongside a short list of summary KPIs. Headline figures use not-seasonally-adjusted data (matching how they are reported in the press), while monthly changes use seasonally-adjusted data so that month-to-month seasonality does not obscure the underlying trend.

Source code

The site is open-source — the data fetch script and chart code are visible at github.com/gteconomist/economicsguru.

Disclaimer

Charts and analysis are provided for informational purposes only. Data is pulled directly from official statistical agencies but is not validated by Economics Guru; please consult the original source for any decisions that depend on accuracy.