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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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How Transitory is Transitory?

Edward Harrison
The interplay between a central bank's forward guidance and market expectations are where the rubber hits the road on long-term interest rates. It's not as easy as divining what a central bank wants to do or what market participants think…
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Europe: Don’t call it a comeback

Edward Harrison
I have four things on my mind today: Bullish PMIs in Europe, the electric Ford F-150 launch, non-payment on bond by Unicredit, and the Biden Administration's non-embrace of MMT. Let's take each of these in turn European economic data Look…
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European tech is about to explode

Edward Harrison
You know, as I started writing today, I tried to think of a headline to suck you in. If you're reading these words, you're either a loyal reader or you got sucked in, which was my purpose. So let me tell you where I'm going with this. At…
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Will the Fed(s) stay the course?

Edward Harrison
This post on the bond vigilantes is inspired in part by my friend Kevin Muir and a post he just did over at The Macro Tourist. It's also inspired by the inflation numbers that came out of the US earlier today. The question to answer: how…
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Americans paid not to work

Edward Harrison
In the wake of the last jobs report in the US, unemployment insurance has become a political football. The issue has some of the trappings of a labor vs capital tete a tete because of how the jobs report is being framed. Some thoughts below…
Political Economy

Ugly

Edward Harrison
Yesterday on the Real Vision Daily Briefing, my colleague Jack and I answered a question by viewer Dianna, "are there metrics you are watching closely now as compared to, say, a month ago?" My answer was US jobs numbers and initial…

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