# FRED Macroeconomic Data

> Use this tool when you need to access authoritative macroeconomic data, such as GDP, employment, and inflation metrics, to inform analyses, visualizations, and forecasts. It solves problems of data retrieval and formatting by providing real-time economic indicators through a customizable interface. The tool connects to the FRED API, allowing AI agents to fetch time-series data and search series by description, streamlining economic research and decision-making.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/fred-macroeconomic-data  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/fred-macroeconomic-data

## Description

A Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) MCP server that provides access to macroeconomic indicators through Claude and other LLM clients. The implementation connects to the FRED API to retrieve real-time economic data series including GDP, employment statistics, inflation metrics, and monetary policy indicators. It offers tools for searching FRED series by description and fetching time-series data with customizable parameters. This server enables AI assistants to incorporate authoritative economic data into analyses, visualizations, and forecasts without requiring users to manually retrieve or format the information.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 1.00
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-19

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** ai-ml
- **Updated:** 2026-09-19

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/fred-macroeconomic-data)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/hungson175/wm_mcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "fred-macroeconomic-data"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/fred-macroeconomic-data` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/fred-macroeconomic-data/pull`

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