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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: America’s incredible shrinking labour force

Edward Harrison Jan 14, 2012

America's incredible shrinking labour force | Gavyn Davies | Insight into macroeconomics and the financial markets from the Financial Times - FT.com the underlying growth in the labour force has been disguised by the fact that…

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Willem Buiter: “We will certainly have a panic stage before the debt crisis is resolved”…

Edward Harrison Jan 13, 2012

Continuing from part 1 of the Willem Buiter interview with het Financieele Dagblad

Political Economy

Buiter: “The temporary pause in the European debt crisis is as deceptive as the frenzy before…

Edward Harrison Jan 13, 2012

The countries of the eurozone will eventually emerge from the sovereign debt crisis -- with pain and difficulty.

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Willem Buiter: “We will certainly have a panic stage before the debt crisis is resolved”…

Edward Harrison Jan 13, 2012

The countries of the eurozone will eventually emerge from the sovereign debt crisis -- with pain and difficulty. That is what Citigroup chief economist Willem Buiter, on a visit to Amsterdam on Friday during a roadshow, expects. Spain and…

Markets

All S&P sovereign credit ratings in order from Australia to Greece for January 2012

Edward Harrison Jan 13, 2012

In the wake of today's extraordinary credit ratings action for the euro zone by Standard and Poor's, below are the rating agency's sovereign credit ratings.

Economy

Full text: S&P European Sovereign Downgrades

Edward Harrison Jan 13, 2012

The following is the text of the S&P ratings statement associated with a review of the euro area sovereign credit ratings.

Economy

The Sovereign Debt Crisis and Confirmation Bias

Edward Harrison Jan 13, 2012

The myth that Greeks are lazy and Germans are industrious and that this has some significance in the sovereign debt crisis is everywhere one turns. It is false. The issues for Greece are not about working longer hours but are ones of…

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News Links: Barron’s Roundtable’s Accuracy in 2011 Plus the Economic Perils of 2012

Edward Harrison Jan 13, 2012

Financial news links for 13 January 2012

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Waiting for Bank of America’s bankruptcy or break up

Edward Harrison Jan 13, 2012

Read between the lines. Bank of America is on government life support. As a result, it is being forced to shed assets and cut staff in the hope that this will be enough to prevent its having to be bailed out or resolved. Moreover, a…

Economy

Stephen Colbert for President of the United States

Edward Harrison Jan 13, 2012

Colbert says "clearly, my fellow South Caroliniacs see me as the only viable "Mitt-ternative". Take a look.

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