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Economic Policy Uncertainty Index: News-Based Index for the United States (USEPUNEWSINDXM)

Observations

Nov 2025: 322.52709
Updated: Dec 1, 2025 8:02 AM CST
Next Release Date: Dec 5, 2025
Nov 2025:  322.52709  
Oct 2025:  309.55998  
Sep 2025:  319.84104  
Aug 2025:  370.92543  
Jul 2025:  372.06267  
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Units:

Index,
Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:

Monthly

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Notes

Source: Baker, Scott R.

Source: Bloom, Nick  

Source: Davis, Steven J.  

Release: Economic Policy Uncertainty  

Units:  Index, Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:  Monthly

Notes:

The monthly news-based Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is based on newspapers in the United States.

For additional details, including an analysis of the performance of the model, see Baker, Scott, Nicholas Bloom and Steven Davis (2012), "Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty"

Suggested Citation:

Baker, Scott R., Bloom, Nick and Davis, Steven J., Economic Policy Uncertainty Index: News-Based Index for the United States [USEPUNEWSINDXM], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USEPUNEWSINDXM, .

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