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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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More on the move to a consolidated fiscal and monetary policy

Edward Harrison Dec 26, 2012

The weekly post on Monday was on the new Japanese LDP Prime Minister Abe's threat to strip the Bank of Japan of its independence as a central bank. The thrust of his threat goes to the integration of monetary and fiscal policy to create a…

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The Tea Party is still driving the bus in the US

Edward Harrison Dec 26, 2012

This article from the New York Times gets it totally wrong: The Tea Party might not be over, but it is increasingly clear that the election last month significantly weakened the once-surging movement, which nearly captured control of the…

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The Fed cannot support net interest margins

Edward Harrison Dec 26, 2012

On Christmas Eve, the Wall Street Journal had two interesting articles on the credit situation in the U.S., one from the banks' perspective and one from the households' perspective. In general, the data were positive but I believe the…

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Links: 2012-12-26

Edward Harrison Dec 26, 2012

Happy Boxing Day! These are the links from the past few days. I will have more to say about individual stories sometime later today. I hope you are enjoying the holiday season. Edward P.S. - I don't agree with the thrust of all of these…

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Japan’s prime minister threatens to unify monetary and fiscal policy

Edward Harrison Dec 24, 2012

Greetings to you all on Christmas Eve. I think the big deal today is not America or Europe, but Japan. The incoming Japanese Prime Minister is threatening to strip the Bank of Japan, the central bank, of its independence. What Mr. Abe said…

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Bank fraud, Japanese and Australian economic woes and other sad tales

Edward Harrison Dec 20, 2012

I have a panoply of links today. There is no one over-riding theme though I do want to address the Japan question in more depth at some point. I have seen some commentary from Kyle Bass and Jeffrey Gundlach on the dire straits Japan finds…

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Bakken shale oil fields and peak oil

Edward Harrison Dec 19, 2012

The top two stories in today's links are on shale oil and the fiscal cliff. I will concentrate on the shale oil issue and say a few parting words about the fiscal cliff. We have three articles on shale oil here and I think the lead article…

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Daily: Amazon to release a smartphone in 2013

Edward Harrison Dec 18, 2012

I have been predicting that Amazon would launch a smartphone in 2013 for some time. And now we have more evidence that this is going to happen. See my September post "Is the Amazon Phone a Boon or Threat for Google and Android?" for when I…

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Daily: Threads on Lower Apple Sales Estimates and on the Irish Economy

Edward Harrison Dec 15, 2012

Quick post here. Apple's sales estimates were downgraded, as I posted yesterday. The reason for the downgrade was channel and supplier checks which revealed lower sales volume than initially believed. Apparently, Apple has told suppliers to…

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Spanish house price decline accelerates to 15.2% year-on-year

Edward Harrison Dec 14, 2012

The last time I reported on the Spanish housing market in August, we were in the midst of a bank deposit run caused by the redenomination risk. This was pre-OMT. At the time, we saw an acceleration in the house price declines. House prices…

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