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, Producer Price Index, employment, wages, JOLTS.
- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)
- Treasury yields, Fed funds rate, mortgage rates, consumer credit (G.19), credit spreads, broad macro series.
- Federal Reserve Board — G.17 Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization
- Industrial Production (Total / Manufacturing / ex Motor Vehicles) and Capacity Utilization (Total / Manufacturing).
- U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
- GDP, personal income, consumption, saving rate, personal interest payments, the PCE price index, and NIPA Table 1.12 corporate profits.
- U.S. Census Bureau (M3 survey)
- Manufacturers’ New Orders (Total / ex Transportation / Durable Goods ex Transportation), Capital Goods Shipments (Total / Nondefense / Nondefense ex Aircraft), retail sales, new home sales, housing starts and permits.
- U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
- Monthly Energy Review — total electricity net generation by sector and fuel type.
- Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit — consumer credit composition by category and 90+ day delinquency rates.
- University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers
- Index of Consumer Sentiment and its Expectations / Current Conditions sub-indices.
- The Conference Board
- Consumer Confidence Index and its Expectations / Present Situation sub-indices.
- National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)
- Housing Market Index (HMI) and its components, including regional breakdown.
- National Association of Realtors (NAR)
- Existing home sales, median price, inventory, Pending Home Sales Index.
- Yahoo Finance
- Daily index closes for S&P 500, Dow Jones, Russell 2000, and Wilshire 5000 (the latter no longer carried by FRED).
- MetalPriceAPI / Kitco / London PM Fix
- Daily spot prices for gold, silver, and platinum.
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 footer of each dashboard shows the last successful build time. If a release is delayed (for example, during a federal government shutdown), the chart for that period continues to show the most recent available data and a notice appears above the dashboard. If a single source has an outage on a given day, the workflow continues with the rest of the indicators and yesterday's data is preserved for the indicator that didn't refresh.
How a chart is built
For each series, we pull at least two years of monthly observations (or quarterly, for the NY Fed Household Debt series and GDP), 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. Where a chart compares stacked categorical contributions to a total (such as the retail-sales sector breakdown or the consumer-credit composition), the components are drawn so they sum to the total line plotted on top.
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.