George A. Eddy (June 15, 1907 – April 13, 1998) was an American economist who served in the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department between 1934 and 1954.
He returned to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 1936, where he worked in its Research Department until 1939, first on Far Eastern affairs, later on domestic finance and business issues.
After a brief time as a columnist and reporter for the Journal of Commerce in New York City, he returned to the Treasury (still in 1939) as a senior economic analyst in the Division of Monetary Research.
Upon his return from the war, Eddy resumed work for the U.S. Treasury under (to be) accused communist Harry Dexter White, who was then director of the Division of Monetary Research.
The suspension arose from his associations with and open support of alleged communists, including Lauchlin Currie, Harry Dexter White, V. Frank Coe, Robert C. Barnard, Emile Despres, William Ludwig Ullman, Harold Glasser, Solomon Adler, and William Henry Taylor.
[1] In September 1998, Bruce Craig gave the Harvard University Law School materials accumulated by Eddy: research papers of Elinor Ferry (from Ferry's son James), files related to the William Henry Taylor case (from Bryan Scott), and Eddy's papers (each processed and inventoried separately by Harvard).