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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.

Economy

Chaney says ‘recession has already started’ in Europe and talks EuroTARP

Edward Harrison Oct 14, 2011

Eric Chaney, former French Treasury official and former Chief European Economist at Morgan Stanley is the present Chief Economist at AXA. He tells Bloomberg television’s Maryam Nemazee that the banking crisis in Europe is also a credit…

Markets

Chart of the day: Greatest Credit Deterioration Focus – Belgium, Spanish banking

Edward Harrison Oct 14, 2011

Here are a few charts from the credit default swaps market based on 5-year CDS. Here’s what I see.

News

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Edward Harrison Oct 14, 2011

10 Fakten zu Griechenland – Kantoos Economics tags: greece interfluidity » IOR caps: a…

Economy

Hockett says restructure debt and invest in infrastructure

Edward Harrison Oct 13, 2011

Cornell University professor Robert Hockett explains his paper with Nouriel Roubini and Daniel Alpert on “Moving From the Post-Bubble, Post-Bust Economy to Growth”. His prescription is one part credit writedowns, one part debt rebalancing,…

Economy

Full text: S&P downgrades Spain from AA to AA- with negative watch

Edward Harrison Oct 13, 2011

The full text of S&P's downgrade of Spain

Markets

Investor: I have an MBA and keep losing money; how can this be?

Edward Harrison Oct 13, 2011

This is pretty funny. (Hat tip Scott)

Economy

Deposit Flight from euro zone periphery to Germany

Edward Harrison Oct 13, 2011

The data have shown that deposit flight out of the euro zone into the US just isn’t happening. But what about intra-euro zone deposit flight? Here’s a chart from the Council on Foreign relations that suggests this could be a story supported…

Economy

Roubini: Moving From the Post-Bubble, Post-Bust Economy to Growth

Edward Harrison Oct 13, 2011

Here are the important extracts from a recent paper in terms of the causes of the crisis. I have also embedded the full pdf version, which has suggested policy prescriptions as well.

Political Economy

Chanos and Gross versus Paulson and Bloomberg

Edward Harrison Oct 13, 2011

Here’s Jim Chanos on the demonstrations on Wall Street which express the anti-bailout sentiments expressed by both the Tea Party and #OccupyWallStreet. Bill Gross, Vikram Pandit, John Paulson and Michael Bloomberg all chimed in too.

News

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Edward Harrison Oct 13, 2011

Deutsche to do everything to avoid forced recapitalization: CEO | Reuters Germany's Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) will do all it can to avoid a forced recapitalization, its Chief Executive Josef Ackermann…

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