# Econ Pulse

> A free dashboard of key U.S. macroeconomic indicators with recession shading, dated events and automatically written notes. Public-domain data from BEA, BLS and the Federal Reserve Board. No model, no credits.

URL: https://econ-pulse.skillsafe.ai/

## What it shows
- Growth: real GDP growth, quarter on quarter at an annual rate (BEA A191RL), with a four-quarter average.
- Labor: monthly nonfarm payroll change (BLS CES0000000001), unemployment rate (BLS LNS14000000) with a Sahm-rule reading.
- Inflation: 12-month CPI, core CPI (BLS CUUR0000SA0, CUUR0000SA0L1E), PCE and core PCE (BEA DPCERG, DPCCRG) against the 2% goal, plus a three-month annualized pace for PCE.
- Rates: effective fed funds rate, 2- and 10-year Treasury yields, the 10y-2y and 10y-3m spreads, the 10-year TIPS yield, and the real policy rate (fed funds minus core PCE inflation), all from the Federal Reserve H.15 monthly averages.
- A Treasury yield curve for any month since 1953, with 1-year and 5-year comparisons and a replay.

## How it works
- The page ships a dated snapshot of the full history (data.js) and works without an account.
- Signed-in visitors can fetch the newest releases through the app's server function (GET /api/latest), which reads api.bls.gov, apps.bea.gov and federalreserve.gov. Free.
- Notes are computed from the numbers: latest value and changes, highest or lowest since, percentile in history, distance from 2%, curve inversion runs, Sahm rule.
- Visitors can upload or paste a CSV (dates in the first column) to chart their own series against any indicator, with a correlation note.
- Exports: CSV of any view, the chart as SVG or PNG, Markdown notes, shareable links.

## Sources
- U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, NIPA flat files (public domain)
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Public Data API (public domain)
- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, H.15 Selected Interest Rates (public domain)
- Recession dates: NBER business cycle chronology

## Developer
- API: https://econ-pulse.skillsafe.ai/api.html