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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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Videos: Depositions of Alleged Robo-Signers From Nationwide Title Clearing

Edward Harrison Nov 12, 2010

Over the past several years, Bryan Bly, Crystal Moore and Dhurata Doko have signed thousands of mortgage assignments as vice presidents of Citi Residential and other major lenders. Yet when asked in a recent deposition what a…

News

Links on Ireland, the G-20 meeting and more

Edward Harrison Nov 12, 2010

Ireland Britain backs EU rescue measures for debt-ridden Ireland | Politics | guardian.co.uk BBC News - Today - 'No plan B' for Irish economy BBC News - Today - Lamont: Ireland 'will be bailed-out' G-20 Obama given chilly…

Political Economy

China Buying Up The World

Edward Harrison Nov 12, 2010

This video is based on the cover story from this week's Economist. See the written version here.

Markets

Jeremy Grantham has ‘already started to sell’

Edward Harrison Nov 11, 2010

This is a must-see video that runs 30 minutes. Take the time to watch the whole thing. It is a real coup that CNBC got Grantham on their program. Overall, Grantham's view is the same as mine. The Fed should get out of trying to use…

News

On multi-year recovery despite global tensions and other links

Edward Harrison Nov 11, 2010

I will be on RT TV America tonight at 1745 ET talking about the G-20 and the Deficit Commission. Tomorrow morning at 1200 GMT (7AM ET), I will be on BBC World News saying more about the G-20. I hope I have something positive to say…

Political Economy

German Press: EU forges Emergency Plan for Ireland bankruptcy

Edward Harrison Nov 11, 2010

UPDATE: 12 Nov 2010 - More press accounts are confirming that, indeed, a bailout is in the offing. The British have signed up for it as well despite insisting that this is a euro zone problem. But they needed to get on side to show…

Political Economy

How the Irish can prevent a bank crisis from becoming sovereign default

Edward Harrison Nov 11, 2010

Ireland was the first country to offer a blanket guarantee to it’s banks’ depositors. I welcomed this move as a necessary step to restore confidence. However, there are two problems associated with it. As Willem Buiter has…

News

Links: 2010-11-10

Edward Harrison Nov 10, 2010

Merkel Prepares for G-20: 'Our Export Success Shows How Competitive German Products Are' - SPIEGEL ONLINE China raises bank reserves as cash inflows surge | Reuters Back to a Gold Standard? - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com Too big to…

Political Economy

BBC: Why you should care about the ‘currency wars’

Edward Harrison Nov 10, 2010

The BBC's economics editor Stephanie Flanders released this nice little 3-minute video which explains why the so-called currency wars are something you should care about. For me, it is quite significant that South Korea of all countries,…

Business

Apple is still screwing it up

Edward Harrison Nov 10, 2010

To my eyes, this is looking like a repeat of the Macintosh-PC Wars of the 1990s which Apple lost. On the one side, you have Apple, competing at the high end and very concerned about platform integrity and control, and preventing other…

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