Barry Ritholtz, Columnist

Ed Hyman, the Best Strategist You've Never Heard Of

Ed Hyman has been voted Wall Street's top economist by Institutional Investors for 35 consecutive years.

June 30, 2015 at 2:37 PM UTC

Barry Ritholtz is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and was previously chief market strategist at Maxim Group. He is the author of “Bailout Nation.”

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This week, on our Masters in Business radio podcast, we speak with Evercore ISI's Ed Hyman.

Hyman, an engineer by training, approaches economic data differently than many practitioners of the dismal science. In the 1960s, he was the first strategist to use a time-sharing computer to crunch economic data. Hyman also created a series of wide-ranging private company surveys to provide a look at the economy in real time. To help his sales team understand complicated data, Hyman began annotating technical charts in plain English. He found clients liked the simplicity and focus as well.