FRED: World's Most Amazing Economic Website

Business Insider goes to the St. Louis Federal Reserve to find out the history of FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data), " and interview the four people currently responsible for the "most amazing economics website in the world"  (except for Carpe Diem of course!).

Here are some FRED stats:

• 1.9 million visits in 2011 from 200 countries (42% increase from 2010)
• Average of 6,000 visits per day
• 14.5 million page views during 2011
• 13,000 visits from Twitter during 2011
• Approximately 600,000 custom FRED Graphs were created during 2011 (more than one per minute)
• GeoFRED received 15,000 visits during 2011
• ALFRED received 48,000 visits during 2011
• During Q4 2011, 14.7 million data calls sent through API
• 15,000 new series added during 2011

FRED's mission: To continue to add more data series and "FRED-ify" the world!  As a daily FRED user, I see a very bright FRED-ifed world of economic and financial data! After all, you can never have too much data (or too many tools, guitars, cowboy boots, CDs, books, etc.).