The Bloomberg Power Player Summit, presented by Invesco QQ, Invesco Distributors, Inc. comes to New York on Thursday, September 5th during the U.S. Open tennis championships.

Join us and share the court with industry leaders

as we identify the next wave of disruption

that could hit the multi-billion dollar global sports industry.

Register now at Bloomberg Live.com slash Power Players.

That's Bloomberg Live.

com slash Power Players. Bloomberg Audio Studios.

Podcasts, Radio News. Single Best Idea,

Idea, and it's a special edition of The Single Best Idea,

There's no other way to put it.

When Ed Hyman walks in the door for a generous half hour conversation. He touches upon a lot of points.

I want to explain the why here. Part of so much of what we do at Bloomberg's surveillance

and before that at

Bloomberg on the economy is actually trying to understand who is this guy.

It's like Butch Cassidy, who is this guy? Who is this woman?

And the guests are different.

Ed Hyman was at CJ Lawrence before Ed Yardenny,

both of them world-class economists.

And Ed Hyman codified what I call chart paragraph, chart paragraph.

There's a chart and then a quick paragraph and then another chart.

That's the entire report.

There's not a lot of discussion going on here. It's a lot of pictures that tell a story.

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