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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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Daily commentary: closing in on the next euro zone crisis solution

Edward Harrison May 31, 2012

The euro zone continues to dominate the headlines, with both Spain and Greece on the verge of collapse. Ireland, however, has voted in a referendum today to decide whether it accepts the fiscal treaty that Germany has been pushing for in…

Economy

Full text: Moody’s downgrades Danish financial institutions

Edward Harrison May 30, 2012

The following press release was issued just today by Moody's the ratings agency in conjunction with a recent ratings action on Danish banks.

Economy

The crisis in Spain has reached the breaking point

Edward Harrison May 30, 2012

We are now in another existential crisis for the euro zone with yields on sovereign debt from Spain and Italy spiking well over 6%. We have been here before, most recently in November. Then, it was Italy in Spain's position as the lead…

Economy

Weekly: On risk assets, the global growth slowdown and likely policy responses

Edward Harrison May 30, 2012

This week's newsletter is going to focus on how risk assets are setup given the continuing global growth slowdown and likely policy responses to it. The overall thesis is that shares and high yield bonds in the US are short-term oversold…

Markets

What record low 10-year rates tell us about the toxic effects of permanent zero

Edward Harrison May 30, 2012

On Twitter the latest buzz is about the US ten-year government bond hitting a record low of 1.6713%. Some are amazed that the world of 'financial repression' where long-term yields are lower than consumer price inflation can go on and on…

Economy

Chart of the day: Correlation of largest economies’ GDP since 2001

Edward Harrison May 30, 2012

John Hussman's latest weekly letter contained a very nice chart on the trend for GDP growth in the largest developed economies. The data show a high degree of correlation over the past ten years.

Daily

Daily commentary: more on the EuroTARP

Edward Harrison May 30, 2012

Since I have been off for a few days I have a lot of links today, probably too many for one big linkfest but here they are. I will leave out more than usual to strip it down to the most salient ones. There's a lot on Spain and India in…

Daily

Links: 2012 05 25

Edward Harrison May 25, 2012

Unfortunately I don't have the time to do a proper daily commentary. But here are the links.

Political Economy

The Chinese water torture that is the euro zone debt crisis

Edward Harrison May 25, 2012

Here's the video from last night's capital Account with Lauren Lyster and Demetri Kofinas. Everyone keeps acting like this crisis is about to boil over and take the world economy with it. It certainly could. More likely though, we will…

Monetary System

Why can’t people understand national accounting?

Edward Harrison May 25, 2012

I was on RT's Capital Account last night talking to Lauren Lyster about the euro zone debt crisis. At the end of the show, we came up against the deficit problem and the question about how it should be solved. I get frustrated by this topic…

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