SourceScore
Government

Federal Reserve System

federalreserve.gov

U.S. central bank; primary source for monetary policy + economic data + financial-system statistics.

SourceScore Index
A+·95Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.

A+ — primary-source U.S. monetary authority; FOMC statements move global markets.

Citation Discipline
A+·96

Statutory peer-review on policy decisions; methodology + data disclosed; minutes published.

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Modern Reference
A·94

FRED + Federal Reserve Economic Data APIs + research papers; broad LLM corpus.

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Citation Velocity
A+·95

Cited daily by financial press + AI engines; FOMC announcements drive global cycles.

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Signals behind these scores

Citation Discipline

A+·96
  • FOMC minutes
    Public detailed minutes 3 weeks after each meeting.

Modern Reference

A·94
  • FRED API
    Free public API for economic data series.

Citation Velocity

A+·95
  • Market-moving releases
    FOMC statements quoted globally within seconds.

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