*** Financial institutions are increasingly making their data sets available as downloads to spreadsheets. This allows interested users to test out hypothesis they have about economic conditions or in the case of the SEC XBRL Project to compare and analyze the performance of public companies.
*** Although not as technologically sophisticated as the Google Maps API or Zillow’s new offering…we are thrilled to see these institutions provide increasing transparency and data sharing.
*** Here are some resources below…we will add as new ones become available.
The Cleveland Fed (inflation data)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
The SEC XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) Project
*** Here are some tools to use with the data:
