us_macro_indicators
US macro indicators
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US macroeconomic indicators from the St. Louis Fed (FRED): effective federal funds rate in percent, CPI and core PCE index levels, unemployment rate in percent, and M2 money stock, each with its own observation date. IMPORTANT: this is a STORED SNAPSHOT, not a live read of FRED at request time — fred.stlouisfed.org blocks Cloudflare Workers (HTTP 520), so the snapshot is refreshed out of band. Every response carries snapshot.captured_at and snapshot.age_hours; check them before relying on the figures, and read as_of for the underlying observation date. CPI/PCE/M2 are index levels, not year-over-year rates. Costs $0.01 USDC per call via x402 on Base; an unpaid call returns the payment challenge instead of data, and a call that returns no data is never settled so it costs nothing. Equivalent HTTP route: GET /macro.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| as_of | string | no | Return the stored capture in effect at this UTC date or ISO timestamp instead of the latest one (append-only history; not subject to the freshness limit) Example: '2026-08-11'. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"as_of": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Return the stored capture in effect at this UTC date or ISO timestamp instead of the latest one (append-only history; not subject to the freshness limit) Example: '2026-08-11'.",
"examples": [
"2026-08-11"
]
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}