FREEThe Chair
“You're the Fed. Try not to crash.”
Federal Reserve Simulator · 20 min · Staff → Chair
Sit in the Fed Chair's seat. Twenty quarterly rate decisions across five years and history's worst crises — COVID, Volcker's inflation war, 2008. Read the data, set the rate, live with the lag. Climb from Staff Economist to Chair on real FRED data. No bailouts.
Why ambitious players love it
A real expectations-augmented macro engine — inflation, unemployment, GDP, credibility
Monetary policy lag: today's rate hits inflation two to three quarters later
Historical crises with authentic constraints: COVID, Volcker, 2008
A career ladder — Staff Economist (guided desk) up to Chair (full model)
Taylor-rule and IS-LM lenses; grounded methodology papers in the footer
Live-FRED endgame + community leaderboard
How to Play
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Take the chair. Read the quarterly briefing — data, politics, the risk.
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Set the rate: cut, hold, or hike. Then live with the lag.
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Watch inflation, unemployment, GDP and your credibility react
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Survive five years and history's worst crises without breaking the economy
Choose your level
All purchases support continued development and new features.
"I hiked too late and the bond market never forgave me. Ten out of ten." — Player review, 2026
Screenshots coming — drop files in public/screenshots/thechair/