Sources

Open macro sources, wired where they return data and cited where they do not. The EU table is Eurostat as compiled on 21 May 2026 in the You.com LangChain finance-research workpaper. Ireland’s 12.3% GDP print is the multinational-accounts effect that paper flags, not a domestic boom.

Landscape scan. Eurostat nama_10_gdp, PRC_HICP_AINR, and BOP_GDP6_Q, as compiled in the You.com LangChain finance-research landscape scan of 21 May 2026.

Global Macro Database variables

Müller, Xu, Lehbib, and Chen. Global Macro Database. Vintage 2026_06. 79 codes. Showing 12.

• CA · millions of LCThe Current Account balance is the trade balance plus net factor income.
• CA_USD · millions of USDThe Current Account balance is the trade balance plus net factor income.
• CA_GDP · in %The Current Account balance is the trade balance plus net factor income.
• cbrate · in %Central Bank Policy Rate is the rate that is used by central bank to implement or signal its monetary policy stance.
• cons_USD · millions of USDTotal final consumption expenditure (household + government) in USD.
• cons · millions of LCTotal final consumption expenditure (household + government).
• cons_GDP · in %Total final consumption expenditure as percent of GDP.
• hcons · millions of LCHousehold final consumption expenditure (SNA P31). Covers spending by households and NPISH on goods and services.
• hcons_GDP · in %Household final consumption expenditure as percent of GDP.
• hcons_USD · millions of USDHousehold final consumption expenditure in USD.
• gcons · millions of LCGovernment final consumption expenditure (SNA P3G). Covers spending by general government on goods and services.
• gcons_GDP · in %Government final consumption expenditure as percent of GDP.

Source by source

• World BankCoverage table

  Growth, inflation, unemployment, current account, debt, and GDP per capita. Snapshot 22 September 2026. Missing prints stay blank.

• World MonitorNot served as a score

  Live get-risk-scores needs an API key this desk does not have. Published Tier-1 coefficients are not converted into an instability score.

• BIS credit-to-GDP gapsStored, not scored

  Private non-financial credit gap and credit ratio, quarterly, where the BIS publishes them. Shown as the BIS series, not as an input to a house score.

• FREDLive

  Fed funds, US 10-year, the 10-year minus 2-year spread, unemployment, CPI, the dollar index, and WTI. Pulled one series at a time so a single timeout does not drop the rest.

• TiingoLive

  EURUSD daily FX.

• London Strategic EdgeLive

  US 2-year, US 10-year, US 30-year, and Germany 10-year from the vault series API.

• FXMacroDataLive for USD, EUR locked

  Official USD releases, the next US calendar, and a derived risk-on score. No key. Eurozone announcements return 401 without their paid key, so they are not shown.

• NewsAPILive

  Business headlines, and country pulls on demand so the quota is not burned on every page.

• The Guardian Open PlatformLive

  Business-section search, and country headline pulls.

• XLive

  Recent English posts on central banks, recession, sovereign debt, or interest rates. App-only search, not a firehose.

• The Odds APILive, separate from country risk

  MLB moneyline from the first book that posts a head-to-head market. Not a macro series. Kept off the research desk.

• Eurostat via the LangChain finance reportsEU-27 table ingested

  21 May 2026 landscape scan: real GDP, HICP, and the current account. Ten country memos are linked, not copied. Ireland’s 12.3% GDP print is the multinational-accounts effect, not a domestic boom.

• PolicyEngine MacroLatest official prints, models listed

  Last observation from their public vintage store for Bank Rate, UK CPI, UK unemployment, UK net debt, and four US FRED series. Their MCP (28 tools, v1.29.0) is listed. Meridian does not run their reform scorers.

• Global Macro DatabaseNot loaded — non-commercial licence

  Müller, Xu, Lehbib, and Chen, vintage 2026_06. CC BY-NC-SA, and the project forbids use inside for-profit research, banks, and fintechs. The country panel is not in this product.

• Jordà-Schularick-Taylor MacrohistoryNot loaded — commercial use forbidden

  Release 6 covers 18 advanced economies from 1870. The Macrohistory Lab forbids commercial data providers from integrating the dataset into a service. Meridian links the workbook and does not copy it.

• IMF World Economic OutlookCited, not bulk-copied

  First source on the Topdown Charts list. Annual forecasts are not a second Meridian score. The annual tape in the model is the World Bank.

• OECD.StatCited

  Topdown Charts source three. Developed-economy and some emerging-market series. Not wired as a live feed on this desk.

• Quandl / Nasdaq Data LinkCited

  Topdown Charts source six. Free and paid series are mixed. Not called.

• Shiller S&P 500 workbookCited

  Robert Shiller’s long history of prices, earnings, dividends, CPI, and the 10-year yield. The Yale workbook stays the source of record.

• Investing.comCited, not scraped

  Topdown Charts source eight. Market pages are not scraped into Meridian.

• Awesome AI for economistsIndex ingested

  CC0 reading list. Sections and links are searchable on Research. It is a bibliography, not a dataset.

• GitHub topic macro-researchRepo index snapshotted

  Public repositories with that topic, as of 23 September 2026. Code is not vendored.

• open-macro-ioCited

  MIT-licensed 2015 forecasting application from the IMF and the University of Chicago. The repository has no dataset to load.

• Kaggle macroeconomic datasetLink does not resolve

  The dataset version at kaggle.com/dsv/19194641 returned not found. Nothing was invented in its place.

• LangChain EU macro essayCited

  The You.com and LangChain write-up of an agent that investigates EU trends. The figures on this desk come from the workpaper’s Eurostat tables, not from re-running that agent.

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