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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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Inflation, investing, bond prices and monetary policy

Edward Harrison Sep 9, 2013

Over the past few years, investors who have expected aggressive monetary policy to produce high levels of consumer price inflation and have invested accordingly have been disappointed. The right question goes to why consumer price inflation…

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Gross and Hatzius: Jobs report below expectations, Fed will taper anyway

Edward Harrison Sep 6, 2013

Both Bill Gross of PIMCO and Jan Hatzius of Goldman Sachs do not believe the weak jobs report will be enough to cause the Fed to call off its tapering of large scale asset purchases.

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Some initial thoughts on the US Jobs report, the Fed’s reaction function and tapering

Edward Harrison Sep 6, 2013

The U.S. Job Situation Summary was released this morning at 830EDT and the headline number of 169,000 jobs added to non-farm payrolls was just below consensus. Moreover, the unemployment rate dipped to 7.3%. Nonetheless, the reaction to the…

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Abenomics and Japan’s disastrous macro plans

Edward Harrison Sep 5, 2013

Abenomics has been very successful in goosing the Japanese economy thus far. However, the question remains whether this success will be short-lived or durable. I believe it is likely to be short-lived because of the policy constraints that…

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More on P/E ratios and whether this market is cheap

Edward Harrison Sep 4, 2013

The P/E ratio is a statistic that, while all-encompassing, can be misleading in determining under- and overvaluation. Nonetheless regarding valuation it can be a useful guide in context.

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On the Microsoft – Nokia merger

Edward Harrison Sep 4, 2013

I have been saying for two years now that Nokia is toast because it has hitched its wagon to an also-ran in the smartphone race. The only out for the company is a takeover by Microsoft and now this is done. Will it work though?

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