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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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News Links: The Top Twelve Reasons Why You Should Hate the Mortgage Settlement

Edward Harrison Feb 10, 2012

The Top Twelve Reasons Why You Should Hate the Mortgage Settlement « naked capitalism As readers may know by now, 49 of 50 states have agreed to join the so-called mortgage settlement, with Oklahoma the lone refusenik. Although…

Political Economy

Video: Quantitative Easing Revisited

Edward Harrison Feb 9, 2012

Deficit fatigue has set in as large scale deficit spending has become politically unacceptable. Austerity is now in. This has caused a recession throughout Europe and weakened the US. To counteract this fiscal retrenchment, monetary…

Political Economy

Bernanke ‘Irresponsible’ to Compare US to Greece

Edward Harrison Feb 9, 2012

That's the headline from my latest talk on RT's Alyona Show. Before I send you to the clip, let me explain my thinking because I don't think I was really clear in the video.

Political Economy

Rickards on Iran and QE3

Edward Harrison Feb 9, 2012

Jim Rickards, author of Currency Wars, was on capital Account last night and he thinks both QE3 and war with Iran are distinct possibilities. Take a look.

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News Links: Jeremy Grantham’s investing strategies for 2012

Edward Harrison Feb 9, 2012

Jeremy Grantham's investing strategies for 2012 - CBS News "Quality gave back a bit of its outperformance quarter, but the game is in the early innings still," GMO says in its latest report. "High quality stocks…

Political Economy

Richard Nixon: 1971 Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union

Edward Harrison Feb 8, 2012

I have highlighted some of the state of the union addresses by Herbert Hoover in the past because I see the Great depression as a time with certain parallels to the present economic hardship. Let's look at the 1970s instead now. Here's…

Economy

William K. Black explains control fraud at length

Edward Harrison Feb 8, 2012

This is a good and in-depth interview with Bill Black conducted by George Mason economics professor Russ Roberts. I highly recommend your listening to it

News

News Links: Missouri Attorney General Files Criminal Lawsuit on Robosigning

Edward Harrison Feb 8, 2012

Mirabile Dictu! Missouri Attorney General Files Criminal Lawsuit on Robosigning « naked capitalism What is striking about the indictment by a Missouri grand jury is that the Missouri AG Chris Koster has decided to challenge the…

Markets

Banks Paying Cash to Homeowners to Avoid Foreclosures

Edward Harrison Feb 7, 2012

Here's the latest story that's been getting buzz around the internet: banks are trying to get troubled mortgages off their books without having to go through costly foreclosure processes and they are offering homeowners cash incentives to…

Political Economy

Greek protests turn very anti-Germany

Edward Harrison Feb 7, 2012

This is how it's going down in Greece right now. The sentiment is very Anti-German on the eve of the austerity/bailout decision. The debt haircut and writedowns coming of upwards of 50% is a default in everything but name. Technical default…

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