Downloading and Cleaning U.S. Macroeconomic Data
Date breaks anchored to last data month (for ggplot)
Create evenly spaced breaks
ESP Primary Color (Navy)
ESP Color Palette
ESP Theme and Color Scales
Download and Process BLS Time Series Files with Vectorized Date Assign...
Download and Merge FRED Series
Download and Process BEA NIPA Files with Fast Row Expansion
Load and Process Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Data
Get Full Unemployment Rate from FRED
Log-Linear Projection (data-masked, dplyr-native)
Utilities to retrieve and tidy U.S. macroeconomic data series from public government data providers. Functions streamline access to series from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED), the Bureau of Labor Statistics flat files, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis National Income and Product Accounts tables, then return consistent, tidy data frames ready for modeling and graphics. The package includes helpers for date alignment, log-linear projections, and common macro diagnostics, along with convenience plot builders for quick publication-quality charts.