Fed Treasury vs Portfolio Optimizer

Fiscal Data is the U.S. Department of the Treasury's open REST API for federal financial datasets — debt, revenue, spending, interest rates, and savings bonds — maintained by the Bureau of the Fiscal Service. Every endpoint supports field selection, filtering, sorting, and pagination, and returns JSON by default with CSV or XML available via the format parameter. No registration or API key is required, and a live Origin-header probe confirmed CORS is enabled (Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *).

Portfolio Optimizer is a free, no-signup Web API implementing modern-portfolio-theory algorithms — mean-variance and minimum-variance optimization, risk and performance analytics, backtesting, and factor-model tools — over JSON, so it can be called from Python, Excel, Google Sheets, or any HTTP client without an SDK. The homepage explicitly advertises free access with no registration required, and a live test against a real optimization endpoint (api.portfoliooptimizer.io) returned `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *` on both a route-not-found and a malformed-payload response, confirming CORS is enabled; the same responses carry a `WWW-Authenticate: Key` header hinting at an optional key for higher throughput, though the observed default rate limit is a modest 1 request/second.