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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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On the horrendous economic numbers coming out of Europe

Edward Harrison Feb 14, 2013

The European Union released figures for Q4 2012 GDP today and they were awful. GDP fell by 0.6% in the euro zone and 0.5% in the entire EU. Stock markets are getting clobbered on the news and the euro is selling off. This is not unexpected…

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France’s poor economic outlook is Europe’s next problem

Edward Harrison Feb 13, 2013

In November, soon after France and Belgium were forced to pump another 5.5 billion euros into bailed out lender Dexia, the ratings agency Moody's stripped France of its AAA sovereign debt rating. The interesting bit was that Moody's…

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What declining handset sales mean for the mobile industry

Edward Harrison Feb 13, 2013

While the well-respected Internet blog TechCrunch focused on the Apple/Samsung story in analysing the data from Gartner's latest survey on the mobile market, the real news was elsewhere. The BBC got it right in trumpeting that "mobile phone…

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Payroll taxes take a bite out of retail sales

Edward Harrison Feb 13, 2013

Of all of the elements of the US fiscal cliff, the most damaging from a consumer perspective is likely to be the increase in payroll taxes as it hits a broad swathe of consumers in the middle class. This was confirmed today via the release…

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Links: 2013-02-13

Edward Harrison Feb 13, 2013

News links for 13 February 2013

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Nationalized Dutch bank investors fight expropriation

Edward Harrison Feb 12, 2013

The shareholders and subordinated bond holders of SNS Reaal are now fighting an alleged expropriation at the Dutch Council of State. In addition, these stakeholders are contesting the Dutch government's position that shareholders and…

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Links: 2013-02-12

Edward Harrison Feb 12, 2013

News links for 12 February 2013

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Buiter was right about Europe’s phony bank stress tests and the Dutch mortgage crisis

Edward Harrison Feb 11, 2013

Nationalised Dutch lender SNS Reaal, the fourth largest bank in the Netherlands has recently been nationalised despite a reported 13 percent Tier 1 capital level in the most recent round of banking stress tests in Europe. Clearly, the…

Creating money out of thin air

Edward Harrison Feb 11, 2013

My friend Scott sent me this video of a magician creating money out of thin air. I thought it was pretty good. Being the investing, econ sort of people, we both also thought it was pretty germane to today's economic environment, don't you…

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Ten Surprises for 2013 coming

Edward Harrison Feb 11, 2013

Last year, I started off the newsletter with a list of ten surprises for 2012 which I reviewed last month. I apologize for not having a similar list of ten surprises for 2013 yet. I think it is a good exercise to go through to hone one's…

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