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Create your own Expansion Charts

Use FRED® Graph to create your own Expansion charts

The following are links to pre-set graphs using FRED® data. All charts use U.S. data starting with the October 1949 business cycle trough and continuing through the current cycle.

Economic Indicators

• Industrial Production
• Real Disposable Personal Income*
• Employment
• Real Retail Sales

GDP and Components

• Real Gross Domestic Product
• Real Personal Consumption Expenditures
• Real Gross Private Domestic Investment
• Real Government Consumption Expenditures and Gross Investment
• Real Exports of Goods & Services
• Real Imports of Goods & Services

* Note: This is not the exact series used for Real Income in Track the Economic Indicators.

Use .xls templates to create your own expansion charts

Create expansion charts using the downloaded FRED® data of your choice.

• Quarterly Data
• Monthly Data