get_economic_indicators
Returns observations of key US macro, energy, and fiscal indicators from four sources: - BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics): the canonical labor + price statistics. ~20-series watchlist covering unemployment, payrolls, wages, CPI, PPI, productivity. Most monthly, ECI/productivity quarterly. - FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data, St Louis Fed): rates, money supply, GDP, PCE inflation, jobless claims, Fed balance sheet, breakeven inflation, dollar index. ~26-series watchlist. Some daily (rates, dollar), weekly (Fed assets, jobless claims), monthly, quarterly. Mortgage rates, Moody's corporate bond yields and University of Michigan consumer sentiment are NOT carried: their owners license them, and we do not hold a license. - EIA (Energy Information Administration): WTI + Brent crude oil spot prices, Henry Hub natural gas, US gasoline retail price, US crude oil production. Unique energy data not in BLS or FRED. Mostly weekly cadence. - FiscalData (Treasury Bureau of the Fiscal Service): total public debt outstanding TO THE PENNY, daily, 1993→present (split into debt held by the public vs intragovernmental); Monthly Treasury Statement gross receipts / outlays / deficit-or-surplus; average interest rate actually paid on each Treasury security class (Bills/Notes/Bonds/TIPS/FRN + nonmarketable, 2001→present). Filter to one source via source: 'bls' | 'fred' | 'eia' | 'fiscaldata'. Default returns all four unified — series_id disambiguates across catalogs. Use this when the user asks about: unemployment rate, jobs report, nonfarm payrolls, CPI / PCE / inflation, Fed Funds rate, Treasury yields, yield-curve inversion, money supply / M2, Fed balance sheet / QE / QT activity, GDP, housing starts, retail sales, jobless claims, trade balance, dollar strength, national debt / debt ceiling levels, monthly federal deficit, interest cost on the debt, or general macro context for cross-source analysis. Categories (for filtering): - rates — Fed Funds, Treasury yields, yield spread - gdp — Real + nominal GDP, GDP growth rate - activity — Industrial production, housing starts, retail sales - inflation — CPI/PPI (BLS) + PCE/Core PCE/breakevens (FRED) - employment — Unemployment rates (U-3, U-6), payrolls, jobless claims - labor-force — Labor force participation rate - wages — Average hourly earnings, employment cost index - hours — Average weekly hours - productivity — Nonfarm productivity, unit labor costs - money — M2, Fed total assets, overnight reverse repo - debt — Federal debt (FRED quarterly + FiscalData daily to-the-penny), Treasury general account - fiscal — MTS monthly receipts, outlays, deficit/surplus (positive = deficit, negative = surplus, per Treasury's sign convention) - trade — Trade balance, trade-weighted dollar index - sentiment — no series at present (UMich sentiment needs a license) - energy — WTI/Brent crude, Henry Hub natural gas, retail gasoline, US crude production (EIA) Period format is fixed-width per cadence so lexicographic sort = chronological: - 2026M04 (April 2026), 2026Q01 (Q1 2026), 2026A01 (annual 2026), 2026W18 (week 18 of 2026), 2026D258 (day-of-year 258). Set latest_only=true to get one record per series (the most-recent observation) — useful for 'where are things now' snapshot questions. Daily series under latest_only return only the latest day per series (deduped client-side); without it you can pull arbitrary history. Pure-publisher posture: the unit on each series is documented in the unit field; we do not compute year-over-year deltas, seasonally adjust differently, or derive 'real' vs 'nominal' versions — agents do those calculations on top.
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| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | No | Default 50, max 500. | |
| source | No | Filter to one source. Omit to query all four. BLS = canonical labor + price stats. FRED = rates, money, GDP, PCE inflation. EIA = energy prices + production. FiscalData = Treasury debt to the penny, MTS budget totals, avg interest rates on the debt. | |
| sort_by | No | Default period (chronological). | |
| category | No | Bucket filter. | |
| series_id | No | Exact series ID. BLS examples: 'LNS14000000' (U-3), 'CES0000000001' (payrolls), 'CUUR0000SA0' (CPI). FRED examples: 'DFF' (Fed Funds), 'DGS10' (10Y Treasury), 'PCEPILFE' (Core PCE), 'M2SL' (M2), 'WALCL' (Fed assets). FiscalData examples: 'FISCAL-DEBT-TOTAL-DAILY' (daily national debt), 'FISCAL-MTS-DEFICIT-MONTHLY' (monthly deficit/surplus). | |
| since_year | No | Calendar-year lower bound (inclusive). | |
| sort_order | No | Default desc. | |
| until_year | No | Calendar-year upper bound (inclusive). | |
| latest_only | No | When true, return only the most-recent observation per series. Useful for 'current state' snapshots. | |
| period_type | No | Cadence filter. |