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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 China’s recent upbeat economic data

Edward Harrison Nov 22, 2012

If you look at the recent economic data coming out of China, it is clear the economy is in a bottoming process. The question is whether the measures used to keep the economy from sliding further are sustainable. The most recent piece of…

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Daily: Software patents as rent-seeking

Edward Harrison Nov 22, 2012

Apple has been burned in the past because of patents. This is the reason Apple has been so assiduous in patenting everything it can. The company's zeal for patents is not just an offensive weapon to thwart the like of Samsung but also a…

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Daily: A brief post about mergers, accounting and shareholder value using Hewlett Packard

Edward Harrison Nov 22, 2012

Below are a number of articles I feel are worth reading on the Hewlett Packard acquisition of Autonomy and the accounting scandal associated with writedowns from that acquisition. I want to briefly analyse the fallout from this episode from…

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Grantham: America is on its way to zero growth with heavy consequences

Edward Harrison Nov 20, 2012

Jeremy Grantham's quarterly piece is out now and the important topic is the lack of growth in the US. The way that Grantham paints the picture - and I believe this is an accurate depiction - the US is not just suffering from a cyclical…

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Daily: On France as the time bomb at the heart of Europe

Edward Harrison Nov 20, 2012

Note: this daily will not have links as I am still on holiday. But, I will begin to post more in the coming week and resume a normal posting schedule next week. Yesterday, Moody's Investors Service finally downgraded the sovereign credit…

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On Cloud Computing Business Models

Edward Harrison Nov 16, 2012

Last month I wrote a weekly post on the technology industry noting that the paradigm shift to cloud computing is in full swing. The most important facet of cloud computing in terms of business model disruption is its effects on platform…

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The latest trends in the mobile market favour Android

Edward Harrison Nov 16, 2012

I am still in vacation mode but I will start to post a lot more thematic content over the next two weeks. This post will concentrate on the mobile handset market and is based largely on a recent market analysis by Gartner. Earlier in the…

Monetary System

Corporatism, over-regulation and fully reserved banking

Edward Harrison Nov 13, 2012

The last post I wrote on endogenous money and fully reserved banking set out a case for viewing the demand for credit to attain real or financial assets as a fundamental aspect of any monetary system. The point of that post was to make…

Economy

Endogenous money and fully reserved banking

Edward Harrison Nov 13, 2012

After the Great Depression broke out, American economist Irving Fischer championed a view of the financial system now called "endogenous money", which sees each person in the economy as a creator of credit. Viewing the economy through this…

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Christine Lagarde is turning the IMF into a change agent

Edward Harrison Nov 13, 2012

A few weeks ago, I postulated that Christine Lagarde was increasingly moving the IMF away from its position as 'enforcer' of orthodox neoclassical economic policy. I backed this up with three specific ways in which the IMF was becoming a…

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