The hidden impacts of rising interest rates

This repository contains the data and scripts powering The hidden impacts of rising interest rates page.

Methodology can be found here: Methodology.

To reproduce the analysis, Python >= 3.10 is required. Package requirements can be found in requirements.txt.

Repository structure

The repository contains the following subfolders:

• output: contains the output of the analysis including key numbers and tables used to generate the charts.
• raw_data: contains the raw data used in the analysis.
• scripts: contains the scripts used to generate the analysis.

The visualization subfolder contains the scripts to generate the charts. run update_visualizations.py to generate to update the chart data. This script also contains functions to generate individual chart data. interest_observable.py contains the functions to create the interactive interest payment chart hosted on Observable. interest_flourish.py contains the functions to create the charts hosted on Flourish.

The debt subfolder contains the scripts to get debt data and calculate interest payments. The fed_rates subfolder contains the scripts to get the federal rate hike chart. The government subfolder contains the scripts to get the government spending and GDP data. The inflation subfolder contains the scripts to get the inflation data, calculate aggregate inflation and produce infation key numbers. The social spending subfolder contains the scripts get the education and health expenditure data and produce debt and health chart.