# Financial Crisis Alert > Live macro stress dashboard for USA, Europe, China, India, and MENA — liquidity, credit, real economy, and FX risk from public market and official data. ## Summary Financial Crisis Alert is a free web application that surfaces early warning signals before financial crises. It tracks dozens of metrics across global regions, aggregates them into stress layers and composite alerts, and provides a **Stress radar** with crash risk scoring, historical crisis similarity, rate-shock scenarios, and optional FRED enrichment. **Not investment advice.** Data is for education and monitoring only. ## Primary pages - `/` — Dashboard: regional metrics, global stress layers, composite alerts, similar past crises - `/stress` — Stress radar: global crash risk score, market stress systems, percentiles, homogeneity, scenarios - `/fed` — Fed balance sheet, net liquidity, FRED signals (when API key configured) - `/charts` — Historical charts per metric with warn/critical thresholds - `/world` — Top 15 economies: inflation, debt, revenue, bond/funding stress - `/history` — Past crisis episodes (2008, COVID, Eurozone, 2022 inflation, 2015 China, dot-com, etc.) - `/ai-bubble` — AI bubble monitor — valuation, semis, concentration, speculation - `/alerts` — Email stress alerts signup (free + supporter tiers) - `/guides` — Educational hub (start with `/guides/how-to-read-dashboard`) - `/guides-index.json` — Machine-readable list of all guide articles (titles, summaries, URLs) - `/guide` — Redirects to `/guides/all-metrics` (full metric reference) ## Guide articles (18) Canonical index: https://economic-crisis.alerting.cc/guides-index.json Hub: https://economic-crisis.alerting.cc/guides - https://economic-crisis.alerting.cc/guides/how-to-read-dashboard — How to read this dashboard in five minutes: One headline score, four layers, then only the tiles that are flashing amber or red. - https://economic-crisis.alerting.cc/guides/when-to-worry — When should you worry?: How green, amber, and red are defined, and why clusters matter more than a single spike. - https://economic-crisis.alerting.cc/guides/reading-markets-101 — How stress usually shows up in markets: A typical timeline from funding strain to credit, growth, and FX—knowing the order helps you prioritize. - https://economic-crisis.alerting.cc/guides/layer-liquidity — Liquidity and funding stress: When it becomes hard to trade and fund positions without moving prices—usually the first sign of global risk-off. - https://economic-crisis.alerting.cc/guides/layer-credit — Credit and banking stress: When borrowers pay more for risk—or cannot borrow at all—and banks become the transmission channel. - https://economic-crisis.alerting.cc/guides/layer-real-economy — Real economy and trade stress: Whether the shock is still confined to finance or is showing up in commodities, housing, and exports. - https://economic-crisis.alerting.cc/guides/layer-external — External balances and FX stress: Exchange rates, oil, food, and sovereign risk—especially for EM, India, and MENA. - https://economic-crisis.alerting.cc/guides/crisis-gfc-2008 — "2007–2009 — Global Financial Crisis": Subprime, Lehman, frozen credit markets, and the deepest US recession since the 1930s. - https://economic-crisis.alerting.cc/guides/crisis-covid-2020 — "2020 — COVID crash": A pandemic shutdown, the fastest US bear market on record, and policy support on an unprecedented scale. - https://economic-crisis.alerting.cc/guides/crisis-euro-2011 — "2010–2012 — Eurozone debt crisis": Greece, Ireland, Portugal, then Italy and Spain—sovereign spreads and European banks drove the story. - https://economic-crisis.alerting.cc/guides/crisis-inflation-2022 — "2022 — Inflation shock and rate hikes": Post-COVID inflation, the Ukraine energy shock, and the fastest Fed tightening in decades. - https://economic-crisis.alerting.cc/guides/crisis-china-2015 — "2015–2016 — China slowdown and yuan scare": Devaluation fears, capital outflows, commodity collapse, and a global EM risk-off wave. - https://economic-crisis.alerting.cc/guides/crisis-dotcom-2000 — "2000–2002 — Dot-com bust": Nasdaq collapsed after a valuation bubble; recession followed with a different sector map than 2008. - https://economic-crisis.alerting.cc/guides/metric-vix — "VIX — implied equity volatility": The CBOE’s 30-day implied vol on the S&P 500; spikes mark fear, sustained elevation marks regimes. - https://economic-crisis.alerting.cc/guides/metric-yield-curve — "Yield curve — recession and policy signal": The gap between short and long Treasury yields; inversions preceded most US recessions with a lag. - https://economic-crisis.alerting.cc/guides/metric-hy-credit — "High yield — risk appetite in corporate debt": The riskiest borrowers reprice first; we use HYG drawdown and composites as proxies for spread stress. - https://economic-crisis.alerting.cc/guides/ai-bubble-monitor — AI bubble monitor — what to watch: Valuation, semis, concentration, and speculation proxies economists use when debating an AI-led bubble. - https://economic-crisis.alerting.cc/guides/all-metrics — Full metric reference: Every tracked series by region, with a short note on each and a link to its chart. ## Data sources - Yahoo Finance (market prices, vol, spreads proxies) - ECB Statistical Data Warehouse (EUR rates, liquidity) - World Bank Open Data (macro fundamentals for top economies) - Optional: FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) when `FRED_API_KEY` is set on the API ## API (for integrators) REST JSON on the Railway API host (`/api/...`). The public site at `economic-crisis.alerting.cc` is static; the browser calls Railway cross-origin when `VITE_API_URL` is set. Key routes: `/api/health`, `/api/status`, `/api/stress`, `/api/history/{metric_id}`, `/api/world-top15`, `/api/guide`. ## Citation When referencing this tool, link to the site homepage and note the data sources above. Live metric values change frequently; cite retrieval date. ## Contact / repository Open-source project. See site footer and repository README for license and contribution details.