Who runs this, and how it's paid for
Who runs this site
The Central Banker is published by Leopardess Consulting. It works from the documents central banks release themselves, principally the Federal Reserve's, with the Bank of Canada, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand covered alongside it.
The site is an independent publisher. It does not provide regulated financial advice and is not authorised or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, the SEC or any other financial regulator. Nothing here should be read as a recommendation about what to do with your money.
Who pays for it
Leopardess Consulting also offers AI consultancy work, separate from what appears on this site. That work funds the writing here. It is not the subject of any article, and no page on the site sells it to you.
Where the figures come from
Every figure carries the date it applies to and the document it was taken from, whether that is the Federal Open Market Committee's implementation note, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis's FRED database, or the equivalent release from another central bank. Pages are published to a stated schedule.
How the calculators handle what you type
The Real Return Calculator and the other tools on this site run in your browser. The amount, period and rate you enter are used to produce the result on your screen and nothing else; none of it is sent to this site or stored anywhere.
A calculator can still give you a wrong answer if a figure is mistyped or an input is misread, so check the labelled steps against your own numbers before you use the result for anything.
Reporting an error
If a figure looks wrong, out of date, or a calculation seems off, write to thecentralbanker@contactforsales.com and name the page and the figure you're asking about.
Independent publisher
The Central Banker works from the documents central banks release themselves.
Calculators stay in your browser
Nothing you type into a calculator is sent to this site or stored anywhere.
Published to a schedule
Pages are written and updated to a stated schedule.
Reporting a figure that looks wrong
A published rate, a date, or a source link can be wrong, out of date, or point to a document that has since been revised. If you spot one of these on a page, the practical thing to send is the page you were reading, the figure in question, and what you think it should be, with a link to the document you're checking it against where you have one.
What's useful to include
- The page and the specific figure, chart, or calculation you're asking about
- The date you read it, since some figures are refreshed on a schedule and the page may since have moved on
- The source you're comparing it against, ideally with a link to the specific table or release
- Any question about how a calculation was arrived at, including which inputs you used if you're checking a calculator against your own working
Send this to thecentralbanker@contactforsales.com. Questions about terminology, about which document a mechanism is drawn from, or about why a projection moved between two publication dates are all fair questions to raise this way.