Economy
US macro indicators for agents. BLS and FRED in one place, public-domain, free JSON.
Two of the cleanest free data sources in the US ecosystem are BLS and FRED. Both are US government work, both are in the public domain, both have stable documented APIs. What they have not had is a single agent-shaped JSON surface that joins them.
This page surfaces a curated 20-series matrix updated daily: BLS owns labor and prices, FRED owns rates and money. Each tile links to the canonical series page on the source agency for verification.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
refreshed 05:00 UTCLabor market, prices, productivity. Curated 10-series set with month-over-month delta.
Federal Reserve Economic Data
refreshed 05:30 UTCRates, yield curve, money supply, FX, commodities. Mixed native frequencies (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly).
Free agent endpoints
/api/economy/bls/indicatorsBLS curated set with 24-month history per series. Filter:?category=inflation|employment|wages|labor-force|jolts./api/economy/fred/indicatorsFRED curated set with up to 90 observations per series at native frequency. Filter:?category=rates|gdp|money|housing|fx|commodities.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the data come from?
- BLS series are pulled daily from the Bureau of Labor Statistics public V1 API; FRED series are pulled daily from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis FRED API. Both are US government data and in the public domain. Citation is requested but not legally required; we ship attribution on every response anyway.
- How often is the data refreshed?
- Daily. BLS at 05:00 UTC, FRED at 05:30 UTC. The underlying series have their own native cadences (monthly for most BLS, daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly for FRED), and we keep the most recent observations on each (24 monthly observations for BLS, up to 90 observations for FRED).
- Why these specific series?
- Editorial choice. BLS owns labor + prices + jobs (CPI, core CPI, PPI, unemployment, payrolls, hourly earnings, weekly hours, labor force participation, JOLTS openings, JOLTS hires). FRED owns rates + money + commodities + dollar (effective fed funds, 10Y/2Y treasuries plus the 10Y-2Y spread, GDP, M2, 30Y mortgage, trade-weighted USD index, WTI crude). Together that covers the macro signal matrix most US-focused agents care about.
- Can I use this commercially?
- Yes. Both BLS and FRED data are US government work and free for commercial use, including redistribution. The TensorFeed snapshot is a curated subset of public-domain series with month-over-month delta computed; the curation is editorial and the underlying series links back to its canonical government page.