iPhone Economy App

The iPhone "Economy" app

Ranked #1 among around 700 paid apps in the Finance category (in the July/August 2009 timeframe)

Featured in Apple's (iTunes) "STAFF FAVORITES" section

Featured on cover (and chapter 5) of Wiley Publishing's book on Incredible iPhone apps

See TechFlash story featuring the iPhone Economy app and Cascade Software Corporation.

See Macworld review of the "stand-out" iPhone Economy app

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This app gives you a snapshot of the US economy (and snapshots for each state as well)

Do you want to gauge the current state of the US economy with the latest economic indicators? Do you want to review historical data for patterns across recessions or patterns across Republican and Democratic presidencies?

Do you want to win arguments when people talk about issues like inflation, unemployment, trade, politics relating to the economy etc.? Do you want to make speculative predictions about the economy based on patterns from the past?

This app will help you with all of that and more by giving you latest values of key economic indicators published by the Federal Reserve and tracking the history of these indicators across the past few months, years and decades .

Application tour

A tour of the application and some screenshots can be found here

Application Features

1. Latest values of key US economic indicators (Housing, Employment, Manufacturing, Inflation, Trade Deficit, weekly updates of Canadian,Mexican currency exchange rates , M2 Money stock, etc.) published by the US Federal Reserve.

2. Graphs to track economic indicators across many different time ranges (e.g. 1 year, 3 years, ...,40 years etc.), graph auto-rotation (for landscape mode) in V2

3. Graphs that track the values of economic indicators across Democratic and Republican presidencies and across Recession periods over the past several decades.

4. Help/Descriptions for most economic indicators

5. Complete list of indicators displayed by the app includes 43 domestic indicators - Business(7), Employment(8), Federal Debt(2), Gross Domestic Product(8), Housing Sector(3), Inflation(3), Interest Rates(4), Monetary Aggregates(2),

The list also includes 9 trade/currency indicators for All/World:Imports and Exports (3), weekly foreign exchange rate with US$ and US imports/exports for Canada(3) and Mexico(3).

The list also includes 255 state-specific indicators (5 indicators each for the 50 states and DC)

6. Twitter support to auto-generate economic tweet text (and post the tweet with the tap of a button) The app uses OAuth login for privacy and security.

7. Data-value transformations (graphs can be charted on interesting y-axis transformations (e.g. continuously compounded annual rate of change, natural log etc.)

8. Five state-specific economic indicators (such as unemployment rate, GDP etc.) for each one of the 50 US states and D.C. (total of 255 state-specific indicators)

The app requires internet connectivity, but previously downloaded/viewed (saved) data can be viewed in offline mode without an internet connection.

This product uses the FRED® API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. It is not endorsed or certified by any government entity.

The Federal Reserve is a US federal government entity and it is the central banking system of the United States. FRED refers to Federal Reserve Economic Data.Note1:

Application download

The application can be obtained wirelessly through an iPhone or an iPod-touch.

To download the "Economy" app, tap the "App Store" icon on your iPhone (or iPod-touch) and search for "Cascade Software" on the App-Store's search tab.

The iPhone "Economy" application is also available through iTunes

The application is priced at $1.99 (1.99USD, .1.59 EUR etc.)

To run the application, you will need an iPhone or an iPod-touch device.

Your iPhone or iPod-touch must have Apple's "iPhone 3.0 Software Update" or a later update.

Application Notes

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