The Institute’s examination room. Every number the Institute publishes — a market price, a government statistic, a claim about either — is checked here before it is believed: where it came from, whether it can be re-derived, and what it does not show. Tools and data only. Nothing in this lab is investment advice, and the Institute is not an investment adviser.
THE INVESTMENT DESK — the standard research tools for analyzing stock prices and the government statistics: FRED and the federal data legs, SEC EDGAR and the screeners, the chart services, and the fit tools. Enter the desk →
THE BENCH — the lab’s working bench for the government statistics: chart a series, fit one series against others, and project the trend with its error band written beside it. Runs in your browser on the lab’s baked data. Work the bench →
Daily closing prices for the lab’s board — the same set the Institute’s weekly market report follows. Pick a symbol and a range; the chart is drawn from the lab’s own data file, aboard the site.
The board is fed by pluggable sources. Free feeds carry it today; a paid feed plugs into the same board by key — the charts read the same file either way, and nothing is rebuilt.
| Feed | Kind | Status |
|---|---|---|
| FRED — Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | Free | … |
| Yahoo Finance — daily stock prices | Free | … |
| Paid feed slot (Tiingo / Alpha Vantage) | Paid, optional | … |
Site Map — every page on the site, by area.