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Edward Harrison is a senior Editor at Bloomberg. He is also the founder of Credit Writedowns newsletter, a former career diplomat, investment banker and technology executive with over twenty five years of business experience. He speaks six languages and reads another five, skills he uses to provide a more global perspective. Edward holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College.

Political Economy

Some brief thoughts on framing the war in Ukraine

Edward Harrison Jul 22, 2014

As the war in Ukraine moves to the center of global consciousness, I think it is important to remember the various actors’ positioning, constraints and likely agendas. As much as we would like to know ‘the truth’, the reality is always that…

Political Economy

The political economy of the military conflict in Ukraine

Edward Harrison Jul 21, 2014

The geopolitical situation regarding the conflict in Ukraine has escalated considerably due to the downing of a passenger jet from the Netherlands to Malaysia. Given the visceral and gruesome nature of the events now unfolding, domestic…

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Edward Harrison Jul 21, 2014

News links for 21 Jul 2014

Economy

Exogenous shocks

Edward Harrison Jul 17, 2014

As I write this, Twitter is going berserk with news of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 280 passengers and 15 crew having gone down in Ukrainian airspace. There is video and photo footage of the wreckage. And…

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Edward Harrison Jul 17, 2014

How Russian Hackers Stole the Nasdaq - Businessweek Here’s why your Comcast rep is yelling at you | The Verge Popular Bitcoin Mining Pool Promises To Restrict Its Compute Power To Prevent Feared Fiasco | TechCrunch Netflix to FCC:…

Political Economy

More on how loss socialization actually happens

Edward Harrison Jul 16, 2014

Michael Pettis has a good piece on debt and credit that I ran on the blog this morning. His thoughts on loss socialization are important not just in the context of China but also of other markets like Europe, the US, Canada and Australia…

Political Economy

Why the European sovereign debt crisis is not over

Edward Harrison Jul 15, 2014

Earlier today, I had an interesting back and forth on Twitter with Edward Hugh, Claus Vistesen and Matthew Lynn about Europe and the ECB. I think we all believe there is more pain to come for Europe and likely there will be writedowns. But…

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Edward Harrison Jul 15, 2014

Monetary System

How economics deals with an overindebted private sector

Edward Harrison Jul 14, 2014

Happy post-World Cup to you all. I missed my Friday catch-all post because I was out sick. So I am going to play catch-up today with a few thoughts on various topics. The BIS Let’s start with the BIS. In general, I defend the BIS view…

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Edward Harrison Jul 14, 2014

Thirty links today instead of twenty The Password Is Finally Dying. Here's Mine - WSJ Bank for International Settlements fears fresh Lehman crisis from worldwide debt surge - Telegraph Euro-Zone Industrial Production Slumped in…

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