@55 MARKETS / ACADEMY
13 areas, one 1–10 scale, no jargon
Read the economy with the thermometers
How each /fred tab turns dozens of official series into a single grade, what makes it go red, and how to read it in ten minutes without mistaking a description for a forecast.
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SYLLABUS
4 modules, 16 lessons.
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How to read a thermometer
The scale, the three ways a tab combines its indicators, the 'what would turn it red' box and the history chart. Learn it once and all thirteen tabs read the same way.
Growth and jobs
GDP, the labour market and the consumer: what each grade measures, where it lags, and the traps — revised quarters, the Sahm rule alone, wages that rise when the lowest-paid are fired.
Inflation, money and liquidity
Prices, Money, Liquidity and Government: the household inflation and the underlying one, the real cost of money, the yield curve, and the pipes through which the Fed's money flows.
Risk, the world, housing and energy
Fear and greed in markets, financial stress abroad, affordability of housing and the real price of fuel — and a ten-minute routine to read all thirteen tabs.
Who is it for?
For anyone who hears 'the economy is slowing' and wants to check it themselves. No prior knowledge needed.
Part of the @55 Markets academy
Five free courses. Each lesson takes you to the live page it explains, so you practise with today's numbers, not with examples that went stale.
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