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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

ISM Manufacturing Report shows accelerating expansion

Edward Harrison Jan 3, 2011

The PMI Index for the December 2010 Manufacturing ISM Report On Business® released this morning increased to 57.0% from 56.6% in November. With 50 seen as the demarcation between expansion and contraction, the report shows a manufacturing…

New Year’s Wishes From Credit Writedowns

Edward Harrison Jan 1, 2011

Happy New Year, Credit Writedowns readers! I hope the new year finds you in good spirits. I am battling a bit of a cold but I am in pretty good spirits myself. So I want to use this opportunity to thank you all for supporting our site,…

Economy

Howard Davidowitz: Luxury and online retail doing better than the rest

Edward Harrison Dec 31, 2010

Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates Inc., tells Bloomberg's Pimm Fox that the companies doing the best in the retail space are the luxury retailers like Saks(SKS), Tiffany (TIF), Coach (COH). The implication is that…

Political Economy

More on the European Financial Crisis

Edward Harrison Dec 31, 2010

I was on the CBC's hour-long primetime finance show Lang & O'Leary last week talking about the European financial crisis. Prior to my appearance I wrote "The European Sovereign Debt Crisis" to give a full accounting of the…

Economy

Jobless Claims Break Below 400,000

Edward Harrison Dec 30, 2010

The US Department of Labor reported this morning that seasonally adjusted initial jobless claims were 388,000 In the week ending Dec. 25. That is a decrease of 34,000 from last week's revised number of 422,000. This is the lowest weekly…

Political Economy

Video: Quantitative Easing Explained: The Remix

Edward Harrison Dec 29, 2010

The Quantitative Easing Explained video remixed...oh my.

Economy

Housing Double Dip in Progress

Edward Harrison Dec 28, 2010

The Case/Shiller Housing Index numbers were below expectations and confirmed that housing is dipping again after a brief respite. In the video below, Robert Shiller explains what this means for the economy.

A Brief Hiatus

Edward Harrison Dec 27, 2010

Hi everyone. Forgive the long pause between posts. I haven't not posted for this long all year. But it is the holiday season and I found myself unexpectedly caught up in the events and just haven't blogged. The same goes for the other…

News

Financial News Links: 2010-12-23

Edward Harrison Dec 23, 2010

The latest financial news from around the web. Articles to note on Allied Irish's nationalisation and the Fed's attempts to block new foreclosure regulations. On behavioral finance, we have a good link from Robin Hanson's blog on the…

Taiwanese Animation: Julian Assange Sex Charges

Edward Harrison Dec 22, 2010

As usual, NMA World Editions does a first-class animation mock-up here. (Hat tip John Carney).

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