Economy app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Cascade Software Corporation
First release : 04 Jul 2009
App size: 17.16 Mb
***** Featured in iTunes "STAFF FAVORITES" section and also #1 Finance app for consecutive weeks in 2009 *****
***** Featured on cover and chapter-5 of Wiley Publishings book on Incredible iPhone Apps *****
This app gives you a snapshot of the US economy by providing the latest key economic indicators and tracking the history of these indicators across the past few months, years and decades.
The app includes around 45,000 economic indicators. The primary focus is on US economic indicators (including detailed data on all 50 states and for major metro areas).
It also includes some economic indicators for more than a 100 other countries (e.g. UK, Canada, Australia, India, Singapore, China, Mexico, Estonia, Kenya, Nepal, Brazil etc.)
Macworld review for the V1 version of the app http://www.macworld.com/article/142855/2009/09/economicnewsapps.html says
"tough to do better than Cascade Software’s Economy app"
"The app is a one-stop shop ....... economists and financial analysts love to parse"
"it’s a handy resource to have available in the palm of your hand."
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Features:
1. Latest values of key (curated) US economic indicators (GDP, Employment, Housing, Manufacturing, Inflation, Trade Deficit, weekly updates of Canadian,Mexican currency exchange rates , M2 Money stock, etc.) published by the US Federal Reserve.
2. Around 45,000 economic indicators (mostly for the US, but also for more than a 100 other countries)
3. A powerful search engine that makes it easy to use partial (or full) keywords to search through the 45,000 economic indicators provided by the app.
4. Graphs to track economic indicators across many different time ranges (e.g. 1 year, 3 years, ...,40 years etc.)
5. Graphs that track the values of economic indicators across Democratic and Republican presidencies and across Recession periods over the past several decades.
6. All indicators updated soon after the govt numbers are published. (Most indicators updated monthly, others quarterly, annually, daily or weekly)
7. Help/Descriptions for many economic indicators.
8. Twitter support with the #cEconomy hashtag
9. Data-value transformations (graphs can be charted on interesting y-axis transformations (e.g. continuously compounded annual rate of change, natural log, change from previous year etc.)
10. The app requires internet connectivity, but previously downloaded/viewed (saved) data can be viewed in offline mode without an internet connection.
Are you curious about the economy? Gauge the current state of the US economy with the latest economic indicators, Review historical data for patterns across recessions and patterns across Republican and Democratic presidencies
Do you want to win arguments when discussing the economy or make speculative predictions about the economy based on patterns from the past?
This app will help you with all of that and more.
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Please contact us through our website (http://CascadeSoft.net) or blog for questions, comments or suggestions.
The app is optimised for multiple iPhone and iPod Touch devices and it has been tested on devices ranging from an iPhone 4 device (running iOS 5.1.1) to an iPhone 7 Plus device (running iOS 10.1)
Download the app to see why it was the #1 ranked paid app in the Finance category of the app store (for weeks in summer, 2009) and why it was featured on the cover of Wiley Publishings book on Incredible iPhone apps.