Economy6.1

***** Featured in iTunes "STAFF FAVORITES" section and also #1 Finance app for several weeks in 2009 *****

***** Featured on cover and chapter-5 of Wiley Publishing's 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. Share economic graphs through social media, email, SMS, printouts etc.
3. Graphs to track economic indicators across many different time ranges (e.g. 1 year, 3 years, ...,40 years etc.)
4. Graphs that track the values of economic indicators across Democratic and Republican presidencies and across Recession periods over the past several decades.
5. Around 45,000 economic indicators (mostly for the US, but also for more than a 100 other countries)
6. 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.
7. All indicators updated soon after the govt numbers are published. (Most indicators updated monthly, others quarterly, annually, daily or weekly)
8. Help/Descriptions for many economic indicators.
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 Publishing's book on Incredible iPhone apps.

Version History Incremental updates to the app that was ranked #1 in the App Store for several weeks in 2009, and again for a few days each in subsequent years.
New users get all app features, and do not have any in-app-purchase options.
Users who purchased older versions (v5.0 and earlier) in the last 15 years have an in-app-purchase option to obtain "Share" functionalty. 6.1 09/24/2024 The #1 Finance app in 2009 has now been updated to work optimally with the latest iOS platform. What is new is
1) The ability to share economic graphs through social media, email, SMS, printouts etc. (available free with all new purchases, and available as an upgrade for existing customers)
2) Months of work to migrate the app from legacy iPhone platform APIs to modern APIs
3) Several other miscellaneous updates (e.g., new recession indicators) 6.0 08/14/2024 This version updates the app for iOS 10.
The Economy app was originally written for iOS2 and subsequently updated with new features and also updated for later iOS versions.
This free update 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 10.1.1) 5.0 11/13/2016 - App is now optimized for iOS7. The app will also work great on iOS5 and iOS6.
- Last year, Twitter (the company) broke their API and so the Economy app could not send any tweets. The app has now been updated to work with the new (so far, unbroken) Twitter API. See http://blog.cascadesoft.net/2013/04/30/twitter-breaks-third-party-apps/ for more technical details. 4.5 01/20/2014 Support for large iPhone 5 screen size
Other minor updates for all phones 4.1 12/20/2012 1. Thousands of new economic indicators for a total of around 45,000 economic indicators (primary focus continues to be the US, but the app also includes a few indicators each from more than a 100 other countries).

2 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.
(a) As an example, searching for seat or seattle will return all available economic indicators for the Seattle metro area.
(b) Searching for sea inc will quickly return the per-capita income (inc keyword) for Seattle (sea keyword).

3. This upgrade also includes a large number of other small features 4.0 06/14/2012 1. Updated app code to accommodate schema change in federal data (for two specific economic indicators)
2. Minor tweak to landscape mode graph display scrolling
3. New economic indicator
4. Other minor updates 3.1 05/13/2010 New features include
1. Save downloaded/viewed data on the device for later offline review
2. Display publication-date for downloaded economic indicators
3. Several new economic indicators
4. Removed in-app-purchase pricing model. So all users will get all new features

Bug Fixes: None 3.0 03/27/2010 Bug-fixes: None

New FREE features include
1. Twitter posts with OAuth login
2. AutoRotate support to view graphs in landscape mode and potrait mode.
3. Optionally turn y-axis label display on/off in potrait mode.
4. Several new indicators such as PMI Composite Index etc.

New (in-app-purchase) Premium features are
1. Economy - State Data: This feature gives you five state-specific economic indicators for each one of the 50 states and for D.C.
2. Economy - Data Transformation: This feature provides eight data value transformations for economic indicator values and gives you the choice of charting the graph Y-axis by transformations such as Compounded annual rate of change, Natural log etc. 2.0 12/02/2009 1.0 07/04/2009