Econsignal Inflation Signals

{
  "alternative_signals": {
    "food_price_index": "Turkish food prices rising 61% YoY in Q1 2025 — above headline CPI",
    "fx_depreciation": "TRY lost 18% vs USD YTD 2025 — import cost passthrough ongoing",
    "parallel_market": "No significant parallel FX market; TCMB FX reserves rebuilding",
    "truflation_estimate": "52-65% range based on web scraped basket"
  },
  "disinflation_outlook": "Turkey on track for 30-35% inflation by end-2025 under current tight policy. Risk: early rate cuts before inflation anchored.",
  "imf_forecast": {
    "year_2025": 28,
    "year_2026": 19
  },
  "monetary_policy": {
    "central_bank_credibility": "Moderate — TCMB independence improved post-2023 election but political pressure risk remains",
    "policy_rate_pct": 45,
    "real_rate_pct": -13.5,
    "stance": "Tight but still negative real rate — disinflation will be slow"
  },
  "official_cpi": [
    {
      "inflation_pct": 58.5,
      "year": "2024"
    },
    {
      "inflation_pct": 64.3,
      "year": "2023"
    },
    {
      "inflation_pct": 72.3,
      "year": "2022"
    }
  ],
  "query_summary": {
    "country": "Turkey",
    "iso2": "TR",
    "iso3": "TUR"
  }
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://econsignalpulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/econsignal/inflation-signals?country=Turkey&iso2=TR&iso3=TUR&lang=en'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://econsignalpulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/econsignal/inflation-signals?country=Turkey&iso2=TR&iso3=TUR&lang=en' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode

// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.08 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.08" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.08 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Feconsignalpulse.theaslangroupllc.com%2Fapi%2Feconsignal%2Finflation-signals
const res = await pay("https://econsignalpulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/econsignal/inflation-signals?country=Turkey&iso2=TR&iso3=TUR&lang=en");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.08 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.08"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.get("https://econsignalpulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/econsignal/inflation-signals?country=Turkey&iso2=TR&iso3=TUR&lang=en")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)