May 2016:
March 2014:

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Looks like the user-defined lines work better now!

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=dreS


The black box shows the start & end of the Bernanke period (Feb 1 2006  to  Feb 3 2014, according to Wikipedia). I drew the lines, then captured the image, then got the "Page short URL" link & looked at it. The box came back just like I drew it!

Nice.

Sunday, April 2, 2017

It's one of the most discussed economic numbers on the face of the planet


At FRED, search for gross federal debt. 32 series in the search results.

Select the Frequency tag for Quarterly data. The list is reduced to 16 series.

Select the Geographies tag for United States of America. Seven series remain. Six of these are "Percent of GDP, Quarterly, Seasonally Adjusted". The odd man out is "Billions of Dollars, Quarterly, Seasonally Adjusted". That's what I want, billions. That series is Federal Government Debt: Gross (DISCONTINUED), for the period Q1 1953 to Q4 1998. Nothing current.

If you want to know Gross Federal Debt in billions, quarterly, don't go to FRED.