Monitoring the Economy
A reusable board often becomes the first home for a recurring macro read. Calendar and news deepen the timing and narrative around that same board.
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Find Your Way Around
Questions, routes, and workspaces meet here. The opening move should feel easy to recognize without turning the site into a checklist.
Orientation
Questions tend to settle into a route.
A question often settles into a route, then a workspace, then a set of supporting pages. Macro carries broad questions, indicators carry known series, the calendar keeps timing visible, and dashboards hold recurring reads.
Reading Hints
Questions often clarify the route faster than tools do.
Curated routes often carry the reading until the question widens into live search or deeper models.
Diagnostics read more naturally when they stay near the workflow that produced them.
When a page feels broad, curiosity often narrows on its own from question to route to workspace to indicator.
Common Entry Points
Follow the curiosity that brought you here.
Explaining What Changed
A broad macro question often sharpens through context first. History surfaces precedent, while theory pulls mechanism and debate closer.
Forecasting a Series
Forecasting gets clearer once the series and target definition are visible. Benchmarks, diagnostics, and projections then unfold inside the route.
Finding or Importing Data
The library is the quickest read when the series is already curated. Live search and import take over once the question reaches beyond the registry.
Guide by Section
Each part of the site carries a different kind of question.
Home
The homepage keeps the main routes close together. When a question already feels clear, one of them usually rises quickly: calendar for timing, news for narrative, dashboards for monitoring, or macro for broader context.
Search
Search helps when the concept is clear but the route is still open. Broad queries often narrow naturally toward indicators, knowledge pages, dashboards, or site sections.
Indicators
The library holds a structured core set, while live source search opens the broader provider universe once the registry feels too small for the question at hand.
Source Import
Import gathers provider search, dimensional checks, drafts, and audits in one place when a series belongs in the library but has not arrived there yet.
Dashboards
Dashboards hold recurring macro reads. Templates, indicators, and layout come together in one reusable surface saved to this browser.
Dashboard Builder
The builder gradually gives shape to a board through the question, indicator set, layout, and final saved view.
News
News gathers official releases and commentary around macro questions. Story Threads carry the main narrative, while releases and commentary add the source layer beneath it.
Calendar
The calendar keeps timing visible. High-impact events, release dates, and linked indicators make the week easier to read.
Macro Overview
Macro Overview stays useful while the question is still wide. Questions, history, theory, and models begin to separate once the curiosity sharpens.
History
History keeps present questions in conversation with earlier episodes. Turning points open inline detail so the timeline and interpretation stay together.
Theory
Theory is where mechanism, intuition, and disagreement come into view. It helps when the movement matters less than the logic behind it.
Models
Models gather workspaces around forecasting, policy transmission, and heterogeneity. Different questions call for different kinds of simplification.
Glossary
The glossary clears terms without forcing a detour. A definition can settle the language, then the larger route can keep moving.
About and Policy
About gives the platform its scope and background. Policy pages hold trust, privacy, terms, and ethics in a quieter layer.
Need More Context?
When the route is still wide, Macro Overview is usually the broadest entry. When the series is already known, Indicators often brings the question into clearer focus. When timing carries the question, Calendar keeps the schedule close.