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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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Friday’s Best Links are about the Fed’s Emerging Lending

Edward Harrison Dec 3, 2010

Links on the Fed's Emergency Lending to companies like magnetar and foreign banks of all stripes are featured in today's links. Also here is a good article on structural/cyclical unemployment and one by Thomas Hoenig on too big to fail plus…

Business

Walt Mossberg Reviews The New Apple TV

Edward Harrison Dec 2, 2010

To me, these small TV-attached multimedia devices represent the perfect example of the so-called convergence of computing and multimedia that people have been talking about since the late 1990s. Take a look at what Walt Mossberg has to say…

News

Thursday’s Links are about Europe, WikiLeaks and the US economy

Edward Harrison Dec 2, 2010

The links post is out with a bunch of links on jobs, retail sales, the European debt crisis, WikiLeaks and more.

Economy

Jobless claims up 26,000 but 4-week average falls to lowest since August 2008

Edward Harrison Dec 2, 2010

The number of US workers filing new applications for unemployment benefits rose 26,000 from last week's outlier 407,000 number. Last week's number was also revised higher to 410,000. Nevertheless, the trend in jobless claims is still down,…

Political Economy

Brynjolfsson bets on spread convergence as ECB monetises peripheral debt

Edward Harrison Dec 2, 2010

Market participants are already making their bets that the ECB will "print money". Below John Brynjolfsson tells Bloomberg why he thinks the ECB will monetise the sovereign debt problem. His firm is selling core Europe and buying the…

Night Time Tunes: Janis Joplin – Piece of My Heart

Edward Harrison Dec 1, 2010

Here's what I'm listening to tonight. How about you all, any suggestions? Generation Club NYC 1967 via YouTube If you want a bit jazzier version, try this one.

News

Links On The Non-TARP Bailouts, The European Debt Crisis And More

Edward Harrison Dec 1, 2010

Link categoreis for today include the non-TARP bailouts and more on the Fed's lending program plus the European debt crisis, and WikiLeaks.

Economy

Some Thoughts On The Fed and Bank Bailouts

Edward Harrison Dec 1, 2010

Walter Bagehot wrote an eponymous financial book in the 19th century called Lombard Street, giving advice on finance and banking. The most important and quoted piece of advice Bagehot gave was to the Central Bank, in this case the Bank of…

Economy

Gross: ‘The global economy is suffering from a lack of aggregate demand’

Edward Harrison Dec 1, 2010

The debt overhang in the developed world has lowered aggregate demand globally. As developed economies compete over a dwinding pie by moving toward a policy of economic nationalism, investment opportunities will dwindle. Bill Gross advises…

Political Economy

Eurobonds are a potential facet of European sovereign debt monetisation

Edward Harrison Nov 30, 2010

A few weeks ago, when writing about the Irish debt crisis, I finished a post saying: Eventually, people may come around to Evans-Pritchard’s view: the only way out of this is via the ECB printing money and monetizing the periphery’s…

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