"Each Federal Reserve Bank gathers anecdotal information on current economic conditions in its District through reports from Bank and Branch directors and interviews with key business contacts, economists, market experts, and other sources." [1]
If you want charts and analysis, find yourself some data/market color providers in the finance industry. Additionally, most finance professionals that need to know about this stuff keep an eye on the economic calendar [2] to see the info in real time as news breaks, because the market reacts immediately.
[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/beige-book-def...
For clarity, the Fed is NOT a government agency[0].
[0] https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/education/teachers/r...
To some extent you´re right, the people involved are under a lot of political pressure to only publish the favourable stuff (although the occasional cry for help can sometimes be discerned from the footnotes), but the data is there. As are the reports. The real trouble is nobody seems to be reading them.
Make no mistake--the Federal Reserve is not a government agency. It is a Central Bank, organized by a consortium of bankers to control the money supply of the United States and, by effect, the world. Episode 201 of the fantastic podcast Congressional Dish[0] really gets into the nuts-and-bolts of what the Federal Reserve is, how it was created, and what it does.
0: https://congressionaldish.com/cd201-wtf-is-the-federal-reser...
I've always felt like these government agencies are continuously moving the goal posts around so that everything appears like they're doing a good job so everyone can keep collecting their paycheque and government benefits. I don't want to read a massive wall of text, I'd rather see charts that show what's really going on.