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Central bank AI: FRED becomes power infrastructure
Episode Central bank AI: FRED becomes power infrastructure
On October 1, 2026, at FRED Con 2026, Federal Reserve Governor Christopher J. Waller called FRED the greatest public good the central bank has ever created, at a conference devoted to trust in data in the age of AI. This analysis reads that sentence as an act of monetary policy applied to information: with readers becoming automated agents, a central bank's advantage moves from owning the historical series to controlling the access protocol. Three precedents (1815, 1850, 1866) show the pattern, and the close brings three implications for capital, a dated forecast and the signals to watch.
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