Federal Reserve Economic Data

Economic Policy Uncertainty Index: News-Based Index for the United States (USEPUNEWSINDXM)

Feb 2025: 334.50922
Updated: Mar 3, 2025 8:02 AM CST
Feb 2025:  334.50922  
Jan 2025:  236.79528  
Dec 2024:  218.84548  
Nov 2024:  225.04903  
Oct 2024:  109.29089  
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Units:

Index,
Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:

Monthly

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Notes

Source: Baker, Scott R.

Source: Bloom, Nick

Source: Davis, Stephen J.

Release: Economic Policy Uncertainty  

Units:  Index, Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:  Monthly

Notes:

The monthly news-based Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is based on newspapers in the United States.

For additional details, including an analysis of the performance of the model, see Baker, Scott, Nicholas Bloom and Steven Davis (2012), "Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty"

Suggested Citation:

Baker, Scott R., Bloom, Nick and Davis, Stephen J., Economic Policy Uncertainty Index: News-Based Index for the United States [USEPUNEWSINDXM], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USEPUNEWSINDXM, .

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