US Unemployment Rate

Category: US Economics — FRED | Path: /us/unemployment | Price: $0.005 USDC per call via x402 on Base mainnet

Payment protocol: x402 (HTTP 402 Payment Required) on Base mainnet. No API key or subscription required. AI agents pay per call in USDC using the Coinbase CDP facilitator (https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402). Discovery: /.well-known/x402 | agent.json | OpenAPI spec | llms.txt

Description

Returns the latest US civilian unemployment rate from the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) API (series UNRATE). Includes the latest value, month-over-month change, 6-month historical series, and AI commentary on labour market conditions and Federal Reserve policy implications.

Data sources

FRED — Series: UNRATE — US civilian unemployment rate

Agent use cases

This endpoint is designed for AI agents. Typical callers include:

Macro-aware trading agent contextualising Federal Reserve rate expectations
Research agent producing US economic summaries for client communications
Yield curve agent modelling labour market tightness as a monetary policy input

Response schema

{
  "indicator":  "Unemployment Rate",
  "value":      4.2,
  "unit":       "Percent",
  "mom_change": -0.1,
  "series":     [...],
  "commentary": "..."
}

Example call

GET https://globalapi.dev/us/unemployment — $0.005 USDC via x402

How to call this endpoint via x402

Send a standard HTTP GET request to /us/unemployment
Receive a 402 Payment Required response with a payment-required header containing base64-encoded payment instructions
Submit payment via the Coinbase CDP facilitator using the x402 client library
Retry the request with the signed payment-signature header
Receive a 200 OK response with the data payload

Compatible client libraries: @x402/client (TypeScript), x402-python (Python).