“Do you even FRED, bro?” asked Paul Krugman in an NY Times column a few years ago. FRED is the nickname of the "Federal Reserve Economic Data" tool – a marvelous interactive system provided by the US Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis. FRED lets you quickly display and analyze economic information, combine multiple time series, generate graphs, and actually understand large-scale trends worth celebrating (or worrying about). An awesome free service to help the world think better!

_{(cf ^z FRED graphs, the NY Times Jeanna Smialek's article "Everybody Loves FRED: How America Fell for a Data Tool", Basement Worries (2002-06-15), Supply and Demand (2005-09-13), Folk Economics (2022-02-22), ...) - ^z - 2025-04-08}