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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: On teaching economics

Edward Harrison Apr 3, 2012

There has been a lot of back and forth in the financial and economics blogosphere about the centrality of financial institutions and their facilitation of private debt accumulation leading up to the Great Financial Crisis. It seems to me…

Monetary System

Progress on the monetary policy and banking debate

Edward Harrison Apr 3, 2012

We seem to be moving forward with this discussion on monetary policy, banking, and reserves. John Carney does a good job of summarising some of the initial forays in this back and forth. I am going to try my hand at framing the discussion…

Monetary System

Endogenous or exogenous money?

Edward Harrison Apr 3, 2012

I think the real difference between what Nick Rowe is saying and what people like Scott Fullwiler and Steve are saying is that Nick believes over the medium-term, central bank interest rate policy is endogenous. What I think Nick means is…

Political Economy

Video: Shortlist on the Wolfson Economics Prize for eurozone contingency planning

Edward Harrison Apr 3, 2012

I like Jonathan Tepper's commentary about currency unions over the past century. His analysis says that the breakups have been feasible. The real problem in Europe's case is overindebtedness meaning that the potential exiting euro zone…

Economy

Video: On the third round of quantitative easing and the US economy

Edward Harrison Apr 3, 2012

The video below is from On the Edge with Max Keiser. I speak to Max during this show from 31 March about the US economy, Federal Reserve policy, financial repression and more. On the issue of financial repression, I think my view is pretty…

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Daily commentary: German retail sales and PMI

Edward Harrison Apr 2, 2012

The German data is still looking rather weak. I saw some numbers out of Germany that showed business confidence was rising. I don't know why.

Markets

Faber: Japanese stocks will outperform as US margins deteriorate

Edward Harrison Apr 2, 2012

Here's the latest from Bloomberg Television, Marc Faber, the publisher of the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report, thinks that Japanese equities are going to outperform this year. Why? For the same reasons I have been saying that a more defensive…

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Daily commentary: On Spanish and Irish austerity

Edward Harrison Mar 30, 2012

I had intended my commentary here to be on US interest rates but i have already written that (silver level) post. So I will refer you there. Instead, I will mention Europe again because the links are filled with European stories.

Political Economy

Bernanke: The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis

Edward Harrison Mar 30, 2012

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been guest lecturing at George Washington University, giving students a four-part series of talks entitled "The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis". Below are the slides that accompanied his…

Monetary System

Ludwig von Mises on Austrian Business Cycle Theory

Edward Harrison Mar 30, 2012

Yesterday, John Carney at CNBC had a nice little post comparing Hyman Minsky's Financial Instability Hypothesis with some of the thinking by Friedrich von Hayek behind Austrian Business Cycle Theory. John rightly points to this passage as…

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