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Wealth Concentration Tracker

Share of US household wealth held by the top 1%, top 10%, and bottom 50%, 1900 to present. Paired with /charts/wealth-concentration.

Source: Federal Reserve Distributional Financial Accounts + Saez & Zucman / WID

Columns (3)
  • period — Period . Year (or YYYY-MM for sub-annual data).
  • series — Series . top1 / top10 / bottom50 — which slice of the distribution.
  • value — Value . Share of total household wealth, percent.

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updated weekly

Generic Ballot — Polling Average

Generic-ballot polling average tracking which party leads in a generic House race, weighted by pollster tier and recency.

Source: Silver Bulletin (Nate Silver) — aggregated

Columns (3)
  • period — Period . Date of the polling-average reading.
  • series — Series . silver_bulletin_avg or polls (raw individual polls).
  • value — Value . Margin in percentage points (positive = D lead).

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updated on change

Senate 2026 Race Ratings

Thin Gold race ratings for tracked 2026 Senate races. One row per race, updated on rating change. Sprint 2 will expand this with a full movement log.

Source: Thin Gold editorial + aggregated forecasters

Columns (3)
  • period — Period . Date of the rating snapshot.
  • series — Series . race_ratings.senate.<state> — which race.
  • value — Rating . Encoded rating value (see methodology).

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updated monthly

Unemployment Rate (U-3, BLS)

US unemployment rate, monthly, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Headline U-3 measure. Used as a backdrop indicator for the populist thesis.

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics

Columns (3)
  • period — Period . Month (YYYY-MM).
  • series — Series . economic_indicators.unemployment.
  • value — Value . Unemployment rate, percent.

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updated weekly

US Average Gas Prices (Weekly, AAA)

AAA national average retail gas price, weekly. The deepest economic-pulse series Thin Gold tracks; ~76 weeks of history.

Source: AAA Gas Prices

Columns (3)
  • period — Period . Week (YYYY-MM-DD, week start).
  • series — Series . energy_prices.gas_aaa_weekly or diesel_aaa_weekly.
  • value — Value . US average retail price, USD per gallon.

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updated on change

Thin Gold Pollster Registry

The 21 pollsters Thin Gold tracks, with editorial tier rating, partisan lean, and house-effect estimate. Sprint 3 (F14) will expand this with full rating methodology and average final-weekend error.

Source: Thin Gold editorial registry

Columns (6)
  • pollster_id — Pollster ID . Slug used for cross-referencing.
  • display_name — Display Name
  • tier — Tier . 1 (top) through 3 (excluded from averaging).
  • partisan_lean — Lean . D / R / N (neutral / not measured).
  • house_effect — House Effect . Points D-leaning (positive) or R-leaning (negative).
  • notes — Notes . Editorial commentary.

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License & citation

All Thin Gold data is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). You can use, redistribute, and remix it — including commercially — as long as you credit Thin Gold.

Suggested citation:

Thin Gold (2026). "<Dataset Title>." Retrieved 2026-04-29, from
https://thingold.com/data/<slug>. CC BY 4.0.

Each CSV download includes a citation block in the header comment with the same text, the source URL, and the retrieval date.