About MacroDigest
Independent, not apolitical.
MacroDigest is an independent front page for people who need to understand what is moving the global economy without reading the same headline five times.
The problem
The most important macro story rarely lives in one article. A breaking report may establish what happened, an official release provides the facts, and independent analysis explains why it matters. Conventional feeds show these items separately and rank them mainly by time. MacroDigest organizes the conversation instead.
A returning idea
MacroDigest was created by Garrick Hileman while he was at the London School of Economics, after conventional RSS readers and social feeds proved poor tools for following fast-moving macroeconomic debate. An earlier version launched in 2013 around the same promise: organize the essential conversation by issue and make it possible to scan without losing intellectual range.
“MacroDigest has won rave reviews from economists like Brad DeLong and Tyler Cowen.”
“I not only visit the site every day (or more), I use it every day.”
That contemporary coverage describes the standard for the relaunch, not an assumption of present-day endorsement. The current system keeps the fast scanning and unexpected discovery they valued, while rebuilding collection, clustering, ranking, and quality control for continuous operation.
How it works
MacroDigest clusters related coverage, ranks it by systemic importance, surfaces original sources, and makes the result legible at a glance. Purpose-built language-model stages handle high-volume classification, exact-event grouping, and headline review, while deterministic rules preserve source credit, ranking discipline, and safe fallbacks.
Gather widely
Primary institutions, major newsrooms, specialist publications, independent analysis, podcasts, newsletters, and public discussion are monitored for original, useful work.
Organize by development
Reporting on the same event is grouped into one package. The clearest account leads; corroboration, distinct angles, and worthwhile analysis remain close at hand.
Rank for consequence
Freshness, credible coverage, market transmission, and likely effects on growth, inflation, policy, liquidity, and major assets determine prominence.
Distill the takeaway
Headlines state what changed and why it matters while preserving uncertainty and staying supported by the linked reporting.
Politics is covered when it changes the macro outlook: fiscal and trade policy, regulation, sanctions, central-bank independence, industrial strategy, elections with material policy stakes, and major geopolitical meetings. Strongly argued political or ideological work may appear under Analysis, More, or Discussion when it explains a concrete economic, policy, institutional, or market channel. Clearly partisan material cannot lead a package, create a front-page topic, or count as corroboration.
Where genuinely different interpretations illuminate an issue, MacroDigest aims to preserve that range. It does not force artificial balance, and party preference and political theater are never ranking inputs.
Duplicate, stale, promotional, and weakly supported material is filtered or demoted. The system is tested against recurring failure modes and refined when evidence shows readers can get a clearer or more faithful account. The full operating specification remains internal.
Source breadth
The current monitoring registry spans 1,166 publishers across 1,313 feeds and public accounts, including official institutions, global and local newsrooms, specialist publications, independent research, podcasts, and commentary. The registry changes as sources are discovered, evaluated, added, or retired; only a small fraction qualifies for any one edition.
Coverage earns prominence through likely economic impact, not click potential.
Readers go directly to original reporting, public data, and analysis.
Related links should add a distinct, relevant argument rather than repeat the primary.
Political orientation is not a ranking input. Relevance, evidence, breadth, and impact are.
Who it is for
MacroDigest is designed for time-constrained people in finance, economics, policy, business, media, and academia. It is deliberately too slow for high-frequency trading and much faster than a daily briefing: the aim is considered real-time awareness.
Independence
Commercial relationships will never influence story selection or ranking. Any future sponsorship will be plainly labeled and separated from the editorial system. MacroDigest is an aggregator and discovery service, not a substitute for the reporting and research it links.