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    "slug": "federal-reserve",
    "name": "Federal Reserve System",
    "domain": "federalreserve.gov",
    "category": "Government",
    "summary": "U.S. central bank; primary source for monetary policy + economic data + financial-system statistics.",
    "founded": 1913,
    "verified": "2026-04-28",
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      "value": 95,
      "grade": "A+",
      "rationale": "A+ — primary-source U.S. monetary authority; FOMC statements move global markets.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Composite",
          "detail": "All 4 dimensions ≥92."
        }
      ]
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    "discipline": {
      "value": 96,
      "grade": "A+",
      "rationale": "Statutory peer-review on policy decisions; methodology + data disclosed; minutes published.",
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        {
          "label": "FOMC minutes",
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        }
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      "value": 94,
      "grade": "A",
      "rationale": "FRED + Federal Reserve Economic Data APIs + research papers; broad LLM corpus.",
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        {
          "label": "FRED API",
          "detail": "Free public API for economic data series."
        }
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    "velocity": {
      "value": 95,
      "grade": "A+",
      "rationale": "Cited daily by financial press + AI engines; FOMC announcements drive global cycles.",
      "signals": [
        {
          "label": "Market-moving releases",
          "detail": "FOMC statements quoted globally within seconds."
        }
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