Guinness · Platform briefing
Harry — Global Economic Data, in Plain English
Harry is your global economic data app — ask in plain English for GDP, inflation, rates and cross-country series, with built-in transformations. He calls Haver Analytics.
Meet Harry#
Harry is the app; Haver is the data he calls. You type what you want in plain English, Harry matches it to the right Haver series, fetches the numbers, and hands back a clean dated series ready to chart.
Think of Harry as a search box for the world's official economic statistics. Haver's data normally requires knowing exactly which series code you need — Harry removes that barrier: you ask the question, he finds the series in Haver.
Charting in plain English#
Ask for a series the way you'd say it out loud, and get a chartable time series back.
- Japan GDP
- US CPI year over year
- Germany unemployment since 2015
The international edge#
Harry's real strength — drawing on Haver — is non-US and cross-country data, the tier that FRED-biased tools miss. If your question crosses borders, this is where it gets answered.
- UK exports to China
- Brazil policy rate
- Euro area industrial production
Built-in transformations#
Harry applies common transformations for you, server-side, so the chart comes out the way you'd present it:
- Year-over-year % change — "China GDP YoY"
- FX conversion to USD — "Japan retail sales in USD"
Ask it directly#
No manual needed. Some things to try:
- Euro area industrial production since 2018
- Brazil policy rate
- China GDP year over year, in USD
Harry or FRED?#
Reach for Harry when you need international or cross-country macro, official statistical series, or to chart economic indicators across borders — that's where Haver, the source Harry calls, is strongest.
He is not the right tool for US-only quick lookups that FRED already serves well, or for security-level market prices like bond and equity quotes.
Plain-English glossary#
- Harry — the app: the agent you ask, in plain English, for an economic chart.
- Haver (Haver Analytics) — the underlying data source Harry calls: the gold-standard database of the world's official economic statistics.
- Time series — a set of numbers measured over time, e.g. GDP each quarter.
- Year-over-year — how much a number changed versus the same period a year earlier.
Open Harry#
Harry has just appeared in your sidebar — open it there and ask for any chart that touches international economic data.