FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) provides access to over 800,000 US and international economic time series from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Includes GDP, inflation, unemployment, interest rates, housing data, and more.
This MCP Bundle Server is compatible with any MCP client including Claude Desktop, Cursor, and other Model Context Protocol implementations.
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Get a FRED category by ID. Returns the category name, ID, and parent ID. Use category_id=0 for the root category. Combine with fred_get_category_child...
Get child categories for a FRED category. Returns a list of subcategories with their IDs and names. Start with category_id=0 to see the top-level cate...
Get the economic data series within a FRED category. Returns series ID, title, frequency, units, seasonal adjustment, and observation date range. Use ...
Get observations (data values) for a FRED economic data series. Returns date-value pairs for the requested time range. Supports frequency aggregation ...
List all FRED releases of economic data. A release is a published report containing one or more data series (e.g., 'Employment Situation', 'Consumer P...
Get metadata for a FRED economic data series by its ID. Returns title, frequency, units, seasonal adjustment, observation date range, last updated, po...
Get economic data series sorted by when observations were most recently updated on the FRED server. Useful for monitoring which indicators have new da...
Search FRED for economic data series matching keywords. Returns series ID, title, frequency, units, seasonal adjustment, observation date range, and p...
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Compatible with Claude Desktop, Cursor, and all Model Context Protocol clients
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