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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.

Political Economy

More on government tax coercion versus fiat money liberty

Edward Harrison Sep 17, 2012

I was on RT's Capital Account on Friday night talking to Lauren Lyster about QE and the conversation moved more into the realm of fiat currency and government's coercive taxing power. This is particularly relevant given arguments within…

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Brief thoughts about being at the zero lower bound when recession begins

Edward Harrison Sep 17, 2012

I was looking at Tim Duy's latest post on monetary policy and asking myself the same question he asks about normalizing the interest rate cycle. Here's what Tim wrote about getting off the zero bound: "it is perfectly reasonable to…

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Daily: Depressions, stimulus and its effects

Edward Harrison Sep 17, 2012

I am still deciding what this week's weekly post will be on. Clearly, I need to write a bit more substantively about QE3 than I have so far. And I have two media appearances from last week to use to update you on my viewpoint. The broad…

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Fitch threatens Catalonia with downgrade to junk as Spanish sovereign contingent liabilities mount

Edward Harrison Sep 13, 2012

Catalonia is the region that was first to announce plans to tap the Spanish government's 18 billion euro bailout fund as the region has been locked out of debt markets. Earlier today, the Spanish government announced that it had obtained 3…

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‘Unprecedented crisis’ in the French single-family housing sector

Edward Harrison Sep 13, 2012

In today's links was a Figaro article which pointed to a slowdown in French housing transactions in Q2 2012. As sales are the first to decline in a housing bust, this turn of events bears watching, especially because France is embarking on…

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Daily: My thoughts on QE3

Edward Harrison Sep 13, 2012

Here are some quick thoughts on QE3. Central banks around the world are taking the lead on reflation where fiscal agents refuse to do so. And the policy stances have become increasingly aggressive. Right now, every major central bank is…

Markets

Chart of the Day: 24-hour spot gold

Edward Harrison Sep 13, 2012

Due to the continued high rate of unemployment, the Federal Reserve today took an aggressive policy stance that is being dubbed QE3. The Fed will purchase $40 billion mortgage bonds per month and extend the maturity of its holdings of…

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Daily: More on Ray Dalio and debt deflation

Edward Harrison Sep 13, 2012

I wrote a blurb about Ray Dalio yesterday afternoon based on his talk at the Council on Foreign Relations. And I always enjoy Ray Dalio's perspective because the macro framework he uses is based on debt and credit stocks across business…

Economy

The latest conversation with Bridgewater Associates’ Ray Dalio

Edward Harrison Sep 12, 2012

Ray Dalio spoke with Maria Bartiromo at the Council on Foreign Relations this morning about a number of economic and financial topics. Dalio covered a number of topics including deleveraging the euro crisis and alternative investments like…

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Links: 2012-09-11

Edward Harrison Sep 11, 2012

There are no big stories in today's links so I am going to leave it as is. Tomorrow at 10AM German time we get the German Constitutional Court ruling. That's the big piece of news that we are waiting on. Most people think the court will…

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