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Source

Role

Cadence

Federal Register (federalregister.gov)

Threat detection — Executive Orders, Proclamations, tariff notices

Daily

USTR Section 301 notices (via Federal Register)

Threat detection — Section 301/232/IEEPA actions

Daily

CNN Truth Social Archive

Threat detection — primary presidential statement feed

5-min cache

USITC DataWeb

Outcome + economic measurement — applied tariff rates by HS chapter / country

Monthly

CourtListener / PACER PCL

Outcome resolution — CIT and CAFC court rulings (PACER is the fallback)

Every 6 hours

Congress.gov

Outcome resolution — bill actions for legislation-linked events

Per event

Gemini (Google Search grounding)

Outcome resolution — overdue non-trade events

Per event

eCFR

Outcome verification — regulatory diffs for resolved events

Per resolved event

BLS / FRED

Economic-impact measurement — four-group CPI, pass-through, macro context

Daily / Monthly

Yahoo Finance (yfinance)

Economic-impact measurement — market reaction around threat/outcome dates

Every 6 hours

All sources are public. Threat classification uses Anthropic Claude; non-trade outcome reconciliation uses a grounded Gemini resolver that weights independent reporting above self-reported posts. A small set of static calibration constants is disclosed separately. No commercial aggregators, licensed market terminals, or third-party scrapers are used. See the full data-source taxonomy. API access The PEPIndex REST API is available at api.pepi.apiautomations.com. Free endpoints (no key required): /api/v1/index, /api/v1/stats, /api/v1/snapshot. Standard and premium tiers available — view full API documentation. © API Automations. Written by Kurt Sather. JavaScript is required to view the interactive dashboard.