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Source

Role

Cadence

Presidential statements

Threat detection — primary presidential statement feed

Several times a day

Federal Register (federalregister.gov)

Threat detection and outcome resolution — executive orders, proclamations, presidential memoranda and determinations, and agency notices including USTR trade actions

Daily

USITC DataWeb

Outcome + economic measurement — applied tariff rates by product chapter for the major U.S. trading partners

Monthly

Federal court opinions

Outcome resolution — rulings from the trade courts, the Supreme Court and the courts where executive-order challenges are litigated

Several times a day

Congress.gov

Outcome resolution for bills a threat names, and congressional reaction — response resolutions, recorded votes and Congressional Budget Office cost estimates

Every pipeline run

Independent reporting

Outcome reconciliation — overdue events no official record settles, weighted above self-reported posts

Per event

eCFR

Outcome verification — regulatory code snapshots for resolved events

Per resolved event

BLS / FRED

Economic-impact measurement — four-group price model, pass-through, macro context; government workforce trends

Monthly with the agency's release / Daily

Census Bureau imports

Independent monthly cross-check of applied tariff rates

Monthly

Equity market data

Economic-impact measurement — S&P 500, VIX and sector reaction around threat/outcome dates

Per event

All sources are public. Statements and documents are classified by a language model with human review; outcomes no official record settles are reconciled against independent reporting, which is weighted above self-reported posts, and every outcome records its evidence source. 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/snapshot, /api/v1/stats, /api/v1/index/branch/{branch}, /api/v1/labor/government, /api/v1/sources/status, /api/v1/status/api-health, and event alerts. Standard and premium tiers available — view full API documentation or read the FAQ. © API Automations. Written by Kurt Sather. JavaScript is required to view the interactive dashboard.