AlphaVantage has added endpoints to the FRED data repository and I’ve extended the Julia package AlphaVantage.jl to use them. This gives you an easy way to include some economic data into your models. This blog post will detail the new functions and I’ll be dusting off my AS-Level in economics to try and explain what they all mean. What AlphaVantage has done here is nothing new, and you can get the FRED data directly from source https://fred.stlouisfed.org both through an API and also just downl...