Why We Built This

Professional investors at hedge funds and asset managers have access to Bloomberg terminals, real-time economic data feeds, and dedicated research teams. They know — in real time — whether the US economy is expanding or contracting, whether consumer stress is building, and whether the labor market is tightening or loosening.

Retail investors have Yahoo Finance.

USMacro was built to close that gap. We track 118 US economic indicators across 10 categories — Technical, Macro Risk, Monetary & Liquidity, Credit & Financial Conditions, Fundamental, Economic, Sentiment, Employment, Housing, and Consumer — and present them in a single color-coded heatmap that gives any investor an at-a-glance view of the macro environment in seconds.

All data on USMacro comes from authoritative public sources — primarily the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) system maintained by the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), and other US government agencies. We do not manufacture, estimate, or interpolate data. What you see is what the data says.

Every indicator page includes the source, the FRED series ID where applicable, and the update frequency — so you can verify the data yourself at any time.

The Color Thresholds

Each indicator is color-coded based on historically significant thresholds — the levels that have historically been associated with favorable or unfavorable economic and market conditions. These thresholds are fixed and transparent, not algorithmic or dynamic. You can see exactly what drives each color on the individual Methodology page.