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Morning Edition · Friday, October 9, 2026Published at 2:20 AM EDT · New York
AI Agents Now Make Up About Half of Visits to the St. Louis Fed's FRED Database
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said visits are growing about 150% a year, mostly from bots, and the St. Louis Fed has opened a Model Context Protocol connector to its data.
About half of all visits to FRED, the St. Louis Fed's economic data portal, now come from AI agents, according to Bloomberg. Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller first gave the figure in an October 1 speech at FRED Con, a conference…
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