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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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Links: 2013-01-08

Edward Harrison Jan 8, 2013

North America Consumers Take on More Debt - Real Time Economics - WSJ "U.S. consumers’ overall borrowing expanded in November at a quicker pace than the previous month, led by bank loans and student borrowing.The total outstanding dollar…

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Chart of the Day: Euro area unemployment rate hits a record 11.8%

Edward Harrison Jan 8, 2013

The unemployment rate in the euro zone hit 11.8% in November according to the numbers released by the EU this morning. That is a record. The EU-27-wide unemployment rate was 10.7%. This contrasts very unfavourably to the unemployment levels…

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Australian residential property sales drying up

Edward Harrison Jan 8, 2013

Australian property market is seeing transaction volume fall. Preliminary Melbourne sales data for 2012 from the Real Estate Institute of Victoria says that 69,000 home sales were registered last year. While that is a fall of only 3,000…

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The Trillion Dollar Coin would be bullish for Treasurys

Edward Harrison Jan 8, 2013

I just wanted to follow up on Randy Wray's last post to look at this Trillion Dollar Coin idea from an investing perspective. I believe the coin would be bullish for Treasuries because it lowers average Treasury duration and alters private…

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Spain’s Public Debt in 2013

Edward Harrison Jan 8, 2013

A good article in the Spanish-language Actibva reviews what to expect from the Spanish government regarding debt and deficits in 2013. I can't speak to the predictive ability here but the article is good at a minimum for its highlighting of…

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On Japan, Stimulus, Currency Depreciation and Inflation

Edward Harrison Jan 7, 2013

I have heard a lot of doomsday predictions regarding Japan over the last twenty years. None of them have panned out as yet. This year, we are hearing a lot more as a result of the Japanese Central Bank's intention of 'monetizing' the…

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Negative credit accelerator from the fall in France’s housing market

Edward Harrison Jan 7, 2013

The French housing market transaction volume declined by 25% last year, according to Century21. The fall in the French housing market is just beginning. And given the macro problems in France and the previous run up in house prices, the…

Economy

Chart of the Day: Japan’s Sectoral Balances

Edward Harrison Jan 7, 2013

Let's talk about deficits for a second. The term deficit has some pretty serious negative connotations. So when we use that word, usually the implication is that the deficit is bad. Here's the thing though; as I have written here a number…

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Links: 2013-01-07

Edward Harrison Jan 7, 2013

I have a ton of links here since I haven't been able to post since New Year's Eve. I hope to have a bit more link commentary coming forward in upcoming links posts. A few of the Spain links are older articles I thought relevant to today. …

Economy

Helicopter Ben alert: The Fed really is printing money

Edward Harrison Jan 5, 2013

I got the following spam email yesterday. It was sent from an email address with the sender name BEN BERNANKE

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