Ben’s Field Notes
Rigorous Analysis. Questionable Conclusions. Overengineered Charts.
A public data journal. Mostly credit markets, occasionally macro, always overengineered. I spend an unreasonable amount of time downloading and parsing financial datasets so you don’t have to — though you probably also don’t want to.
Dashboards
Live charts querying the data lake directly. Updated when the pipelines run, which is to say, whenever I remember to run them.
Auto Loan Credit — ABS-EE Panel
Loan-level delinquency data from SEC EDGAR ABS-EE filings. Consumer auto credit, aggregated from servicer reports. Not exactly a beach read.
Bank Lending Standards — SLOOS
The Fed’s Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey. Banks self-reporting whether they’re tightening credit. Spoiler: when they tighten a lot, things tend to get interesting.