David Harrison

Deputy economic policy editor @politico

[Martha Gimbel @marthagimbel]

GDP growth has come in strong so far in 2025. Yet, job growth in 2025 was barely above 0 at 15,000/month. So it looks like an AI productivity boom!

...economic data is never that simply. We may in fact be seeing a productivity boom...but certainty and why are still TBD. 1/

[David Harrison @d_harrison]

Can’t tell you how many times I’ve almost been run over by a driver turning right on red who looks left for cars but doesn’t look right for pedestrians or cyclists.

[Dario Perkins @darioperkins]

AI is great, but turning right on a red light is still the greatest American invention of all time

[Sam Sutton @samjsutton]

no one does crypto winters like @declanharty https://t.co/EOPaBrH3JD

[David Harrison @d_harrison]

I thought Murray did a good job at the WSJ but maybe he just doesn't understand how a major metro daily is not the same as a global financial publication.

[Benjy Sarlin @BenjySarlin]

Yeah when I think about what's essential to my life it just might include books, sports, what's happening on the street I live, and whether we're going to war

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

No struggling newspaper ever saved itself by becoming a worse and less essential product. But what's happening today at the @washingtonpost is not just the latest devastating contraction of the news industry; it's the gutting of an American institution vital for a healthy society

[David Harrison @d_harrison]

Broad swaths of the American workforce may no longer have the spending power to meaningfully affect the economic statistics, says @nirkaissar. That has far-reaching consequences https://t.co/iTcnZI2OHU

[David Harrison @d_harrison]

‘Kiss the ring:’ Silicon Valley CEOs struggle to respond to Trump’s involvement in their businesses https://t.co/ptorFHYn3r via @politico

[Sam Sutton @samjsutton]

Fed allies see Trump’’s attempt to upend the central bank as the greatest threat to the institution’s autonomy since Nixon put the screws to Arthur Burns. Unfortunately for the Fed, the coalition that’s preserved its independence is beginning to fray. https://t.co/eNXHom44fI

[David Harrison @d_harrison]

The Wall Street fight you should be paying attention to. Really good piece by @declanharty https://t.co/oP3oCIdoDq via @politico

[POLITICO @politico]

EXCLUSIVE: Sean Duffy will announce expedited plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, his first major action as interim NASA administrator. https://t.co/RpjxR6zbZy

[David Harrison @d_harrison]

Higher borrowing costs are here to stay. Even if Trump's new Fed chair cuts interest rates. https://t.co/SmfuLAivd8

[Jay O'Brien @jayobtv]

Trump just asked by ABC’s @jonkarl why he fired head of Bureau of Labor Statistics after dismal jobs report:

“Because I think her numbers were wrong.”

[Victoria Guida @vtg2]

Fed Chair Powell on Wednesday:

[David Harrison @d_harrison]

This is big: Trump demands firing of BLS chief after soft jobs report https://t.co/1Jl0aqS1wI via @politico

[Conor Sen @conorsen]

Biggest shift in labor market sentiment from one jobs report I've seen in a long time.

[Declan Harty @declanharty]

New: Crypto billionaires Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss pressed President Donald Trump over the weekend to reconsider his nominee to lead a small but powerful Wall Street regulator that helps oversee the $4 trillion market.

w/@SophiaCai99

https://t.co/fXHFB5kuIA

[David Harrison @d_harrison]

Winklevoss brothers pressed Trump to dump pick for top Wall Street regulator https://t.co/uPOzC9YolO via @politico

[Victoria Guida @vtg2]

"We have made no decisions about September," Fed Chair Powell says re: the possibility of a rate cut

[David Harrison @d_harrison]

Trump got his tariff hike. The rest remains murky. https://t.co/IWkskrW60u via @politico

[Sam Sutton @samjsutton]

Welcome to the next chapter of @politico’s Morning Money. Our new Friday Capital Risk edition will cover political volatility, disruption and policy decisions are moving markets and disrupting c-suite. Me and @vtg2 — along with our colleagues across the newsroom —will…