a method to their madness

This caught me by surprise:

FRED's Nonfinancial Corporate Business debt series is discontinued? First I'm hearing of it. But that's what the add-a-data-series box shows. Disturbing. First TCMDO, now this? Yeah, they brought TCMDO back, but still...

All I get on the Notes page for this discontinued series is: "The source no longer includes this series on their release causing the discontinuance of the series in FRED."

Thanks, guys.

So I dug around a little, looking for nonfinancial corporate business debt. Found this one:

Debt securities; liability.

Sounds familiar.

I dug up my The Replacement for TCMDO from last October. The two series they brought in to replace TCMDO are All Sectors; Total Debt Securities; Liability and All Sectors; Total Loans; Liability.

Debt securities; liability. And that series ID is ASTDSL. DSL. And the "Total Loans; Liability" series ID is ASTLL. Hmm.

And the "nonfinancial corporate business debt securities liability" series ID is NCBDSL.

Hmm.

Maybe there's a method to their madness.

Yup, there is an NCBLL series: "Nonfinancial Corporate Business; Loans; Liability".

Okay.