Chart composer

Put up to four indicators on one chart — level, year-over-year, or indexed to 100 — and share the result as a link. The URL is the chart: anyone opening it sees the same composition, recomputed from the same published data.

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Policy rate vs the 2-year yield

The rate the Fed sets next to the market rate that anticipates it.

Headline vs core inflation, YoY

CPI with and without food and energy, as year-over-year change.

10-year yields: US, Germany, UK, Japan

Four sovereign benchmarks on one axis.

S&P 500 vs Nasdaq, indexed

Both rebased to 100 a decade ago.

VIX vs high-yield spread

Equity-implied volatility beside credit stress, each on its own axis.

Unemployment vs jobless claims

The monthly rate beside the weekly flow, each on its own axis.

Every line is the published series from FRED, plotted as released. Year-over-year is the percent change against the same period one year earlier, with the lag inferred from each series' own cadence; Indexed rebases each line to 100 at the first plotted date. Red shading marks NBER recession periods. Lines are juxtaposed, never netted or fitted — whether one explains another is left to the reader. See methodology and data sources.