Federal Funds Effective Rate
Daily Federal Funds Rate from 1928-1954 (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/categories/33951). The federal funds rate is the interest rate at which depository institutions trade federal funds (balances held at Federal Reserve Banks) with each other overnight. When a depository institution has surplus balances in its reserve account, it lends to other banks in need of larger balances. In simpler terms, a bank with excess cash, which is often referred to as liquidity, will lend to another bank that nee…
Quality
Attribution
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)
Schema
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | string | |
| value | float |
Sample rows
| date | value |
|---|---|
| 1954-07-01 | 0.8 |
| 1954-08-01 | 1.22 |
| 1954-09-01 | 1.07 |
| 1954-10-01 | 0.85 |
| 1954-11-01 | 0.83 |
Use with an LLM
Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).
cURL
curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/fred/federal_funds_rate" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'Python
import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/fred/federal_funds_rate").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/fred/federal_funds_rate
Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.