Source: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/fred

# FRED
URL: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/fred
Last modified: 2026-10-17

FRED is the free St Louis Fed database of every major US economic series going back decades, charts and downloads with no account. When a headline says a number is the highest in three years, [FRED is where you check](https://mochatrade.com/learn/start-here/how-to-read-us-market-news), and every [inflation](https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure/us-inflation-explained) and [jobs](https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure/us-jobs-report-explained) series lives there.

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