Database by the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis with 700k+ economic time series (opens in new tab)

(fred.stlouisfed.org)

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There is an R package fredr to access the FRED database: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/fredr/index.html .

They keep on discontinuing politically inconvenient data that shows what a terrible job they are doing. But otherwise it’s a goldmine.

Any examples of such data?

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There is an R package fredr to access the FRED database: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/fredr/index.html .

They keep on discontinuing politically inconvenient data that shows what a terrible job they are doing. But otherwise it’s a goldmine.

Any examples of such data?

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