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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.

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Economic and market themes: 2014-05-20 Spain, China, Russia, Telecom

Edward Harrison May 20, 2014

Today, rather than write to a single theme, I am going to highlight a number of stories that I have seen over the past few days that I think are important. Spain. Bad debts in Spain are now declining ever so slightly. The latest data for…

Daily

News: 2014-05-20

Edward Harrison May 20, 2014

News links for 20 May 2014

Monetary System

Why the ECB will become more activist in June

Edward Harrison May 19, 2014

I am skipping the news links today to go right to the daily commentary. I want to continue my thoughts on what’s happening in Europe and why I think the ECB will become more activist. There are a number of policy options on the table for…

Economy

Economic and market themes: 2014-05-16 China

Edward Harrison May 16, 2014

The Chinese property bubble is bursting Chinese wage pressure is rising Chinese search for oil has increased geopolitical tensions

Daily

News: 2014-05-16

Edward Harrison May 16, 2014

News links for 16 May 2014

Commentary

ECB gets green light on stimulus as half of eurozone contracts

Edward Harrison May 15, 2014

The data out of the eurozone this morning were below expectations. Growth in Q1 was up just 0.2% versus an anticipated 0.4% pickup. Much of this growth came from Germany, as many countries in the eurozone saw no growth or contraction. This…

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News: 2014-05-15

Edward Harrison May 15, 2014

News links for 15 May 2014

Commentary

On an ECB tax on reserves, QE and other easing

Edward Harrison May 14, 2014

What is the ECB likely to do come June? There has been a lot of speculation in the media about the ECB’s next move but the ECB has yet to make definitive statements on which way it is leaning and why. I believe quantitative easing is out of…

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News: 2014-05-14

Edward Harrison May 14, 2014

ekathimerini.com | Geithner describes alarm at Schaeuble plan for Greek euro exit in new book BBC News - UK unemployment rate falls to five-year low In Ukrainian media, an uncivil war of words : Columbia Journalism Review…

Commentary

The mobile handset clone wars have arrived

Edward Harrison May 13, 2014

The last earnings report from Apple was good on many fronts. While I was concerned with the dip in sales everywhere outside of the iPhone, Apple’s iPhone sales showed great promise, both in terms of unit sales and average selling price. But…

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