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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

Can Mario Monti save Italy from default or economic collapse?

Edward Harrison Nov 16, 2011

I think Monti and Papademos are going to try to shoehorn the standard policy responses into the situation in order to reduce the range of outcomes they have to deal with. In a practical sense, that means going with the standard formula of…

Economy

David McWilliams on Irish (and Italian) euro exit

Edward Harrison Nov 15, 2011

When I was running through Italian default scenarios earlier in the day, I asked “Could Italy unilaterally exit the euro zone and redominate euro debts at par into a new Lira currency to forestall the default? Perhaps. That is something to…

Business

Walt Mossberg reviews the Kindle Fire

Edward Harrison Nov 15, 2011

Walt Mossberg takes a look at Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablet. How does it stack up against the iPad and the new Nook Color?

Blogs

More on advocacy versus forecasting at Credit Writedowns

Edward Harrison Nov 15, 2011

About a year ago I told you there would be less policy advocacy and more policy forecasting at Credit Writedowns. This is an update.

Markets

Chart of the day: Contagion spreads to the Netherlands

Edward Harrison Nov 15, 2011

Yesterday, I showed you that contagion had spread and default probabilities were blowing out right across Europe. Every single name on the list for sovereign credit default wideners was European and names like Austria, Estonia, and Slovakia…

Markets

Running through Italian default scenarios

Edward Harrison Nov 15, 2011

The most important debate of our lifetimes is now ongoing. The question: Should the ECB “write the check’ for the euro area national governments? In thinking about the answer to this all-important question, I prefer to shift the focus by…

News

News Links: Merkel Urges Overhaul of EU as Party Votes to Allow Exits From Euro

Edward Harrison Nov 15, 2011

Merkel Urges Overhaul of European Union - Bloomberg German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for an overhaul of the European Union, advocating closer political ties and tighter budget rules, in her most explicit prescription for…

Economy

The Obama Hope and Change Fail

Edward Harrison Nov 14, 2011

Gallup reports that Congress' job approval is entrenched at a record low of 13%. Here’s what I noticed, however.

Markets

Gross, El-Erian on Europe, Strategy, Treasuries

Edward Harrison Nov 14, 2011

PIMCO’s Mohamed El-Erian and Bill Gross spoke exclusively with Bloomberg Television’s Tom Keene today from the company’s headquarters in Newport Beach, CA about Europe’s crisis, PIMCO’s investment strategy and Treasury yields. Video…

Markets

Contagion: Default probabilities blow out right across Europe

Edward Harrison Nov 14, 2011

Look at this chart of the sovereign credit default swap wideners today. Every single name is European. The only one with a sub-10% default possibility is Sweden, and they are not in the euro zone. That tells you something, doesn’t it? I…

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