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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.

Markets

Tape painting?

Edward Harrison Sep 12, 2011

Marshall here. That was an impressive rally into the close in New York. Stocks ended up across the board. Yves Smith, who was off the grid today, asked “was there any news driving” the rally into the close or was it just tape painting.…

Political Economy

Greece default risk now 98%

Edward Harrison Sep 12, 2011

Greece’s chance of default in the next five years has soared to 98 percent. The day of reckoning is now close at hand.

Political Economy

Blanchflower: ‘The Europeans have run out of options’

Edward Harrison Sep 12, 2011

David Blanchflower believes that Europe’s dithering has been fatal to the EMU. In an interview with Bloomberg Television, he said that Europe had an opportunity to get ahead of the sovereign debt crisis when it was just Greece. But now he…

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Edward Harrison Sep 12, 2011

Obama's job speech may save just one: his own - Opinion - Al Jazeera English "The Speech" did what it was supposed to do - associate President Barack Obama with a bold programme for creating…

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Edward Harrison Sep 11, 2011

FT.com - Police struggle to combat copper theft "The global boom in commodity prices is being felt in railway sidings, electricity substations and scrap yards as gangs of thieves scour the country for…

Political Economy

Germany is preparing for Greek bankruptcy

Edward Harrison Sep 11, 2011

The mood in Germany is still about cutting Greece loose to save Italy and Spain

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Edward Harrison Sep 10, 2011

Treasuries Rise, 10-Year Yields Fall to Record on Greece Financial Turmoil - Bloomberg (tags: treasuries) Germany's Schaeuble tipped to succeed…

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Janjuah thinks stocks aren’t cheap enough

Edward Harrison Sep 9, 2011

Economic policy has become more important than ever in the investment world. And the degree of policy uncertainty only increases as bailout and deficit fatigue battle it out with liquidity uber alles and financial repression as the policy…

Political Economy

The euro zone is coming apart at the seams now

Edward Harrison Sep 9, 2011

Clearly, Stark sees the monetisation path the ECB is on as not at all compatible with thee ECB’s mandate. Separately, the noises coming out of the German governing coalition show exasperation with the progress in Greece. Edward Hugh writes…

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Edward Harrison Sep 9, 2011

In defence of Chevalier Trichet – Telegraph Blogs (tags: ecb inflation politics europe) FT Alphaville » Does junk predict a funk?…

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