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title: "How Liminal Macro works and its limits"
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description: "Sources, portfolio context, freshness, AI assistance, and honest limits of Liminal Macro research."
last_updated: 2026-10-19
date_published: 2026-10-19
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# How Liminal Macro works and its limits

Liminal Macro is free and independent, with no ads, investors, subscriptions, or monetization plans. Its systems organize current evidence so readers can examine the interpretation without treating it as a prediction.

## Which sources does Liminal Macro use for its research?

Liminal Macro combines official economic sources, company filings, market-data services, and configured news feeds. Implemented examples include FRED, BLS, BEA, Treasury Fiscal Data, New York Fed, BIS, IMF, Japan e-Stat, SEC EDGAR, and CFTC. Coverage and observation frequency differ, so the source table identifies what each integration actually contributes.

The public coverage table distinguishes official observations, licensed vendor data, and news-source discovery.

## How does Liminal Macro connect news with portfolio holdings?

Liminal Private organizes research around holdings entered for an authenticated account and their factual exposures. A company mention is one relevance channel; sector, currency, financing, and macro developments can matter indirectly. This is informational context, not a suitability assessment, and a public demonstration does not retrieve or infer a reader’s personal positions.

The labeled demo uses fictional holding categories; proprietary scoring rules and real accounts are not published.

## How current is a Liminal Macro briefing?

Liminal Macro’s source observations, charts, and written briefings can update on different schedules. Client polling does not make an underlying monthly release intraday or prove every paragraph was just regenerated. Read the observation date, publication date, and written update time for the particular item, and verify consequential figures against their original source.

The coverage page documents inspected request intervals and explains why they are not freshness guarantees.

## What does Liminal Macro deliberately leave to the reader?

Liminal Macro leaves investment decisions, suitability judgments, and trade execution to the responsible person or institution. Its research provides evidence, confidence, contradiction, and invalidation to support understanding of current conditions. It does not promise a future return, a reliable market forecast, or a complete account-level risk assessment from a short summary.

The terminal is free and informational. A strong interpretation remains open to contradictory evidence.

## How can I report an incorrect Liminal Macro fact?

Report a suspected error to hello@liminalmacro.com with the public page URL, the displayed observation and update date, the disputed sentence or figure, and the primary source supporting the correction. Do not include broker credentials or sensitive account information. A clear reproducible example helps distinguish a stale observation from a calculation or interpretation problem.

Public corrections should preserve the original publication context and update only genuinely changed information.


Informational only, not investment advice.

[Terminal](/terminal) · [Company facts](/facts)

### Related questions and resources

[Coverage](/coverage) · [Portfolio news](/guides/portfolio-news-and-monitoring) · [AI limitations](/guides/ai-and-llms-in-investing) · [Data sources](/guides/free-financial-information)

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