FRED Economic Data

Overview

FRED Economic Data is a Model Context Protocol server that connects you to the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) system, giving your AI assistant access to GDP, inflation, unemployment rates, and over 800,000 time series datasets. The server exposes FRED's full catalog as tools your model can call directly, letting you query economic indicators and historical data without leaving your workflow.

The server runs locally on your machine via the npm package fred-economic-mcp, communicating over stdio with your MCP client. You'll need a FRED_API_KEY environment variable to authenticate. Install it with npx -y fred-economic-mcp. Version v1.0.3 is available under the MIT license, with source code at danishashko/fred-economic-mcp on GitHub.

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Installation

// claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fred_economic_data": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "fred-economic-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FRED_API_KEY": "<fred-api-key>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Requires FRED_API_KEY