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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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Links: 2010-10-30

Edward Harrison Oct 30, 2010

How the Brain Reacts to Financial Bubbles - NYTimes.com Review: T-Mobile G2 - Mobile Crunch Special Report: A Marshall Plan for America's housing woes| Reuters As HAMP goes up in smoke, U.S. needs new housing plan| Reuters How to…

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Links: 2010-10-29

Edward Harrison Oct 29, 2010

Emerging Markets How to end the currency war - National Post The "Fifth BRIC" - The Daily Reckoning The US FT Alphaville » The Worst Columnist in the World Consumers: Avoid Robosigning and Save - Spending -…

Economy

Video: Hugh Hendry on UK growth prospects on BBC’s QuestionTime

Edward Harrison Oct 29, 2010

Here's a good town hall-style video featuring Simon Schama and Hugh Hendry on BBC QuestionTime. The ever-combative Hendry gave his opinion on the prospects for the UK economy going forward from the Austerian viewpoint. He said that he…

Economy

GDP growth comes in at 2.0%, bang on estimates

Edward Harrison Oct 29, 2010

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has issued the following news release today: Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States -- increased at an…

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ECRI: No Double Dip Recession

Edward Harrison Oct 28, 2010

This is the analysis emanating from the ECRI: (CNN) - Op-Ed by Lakshman Achuthan and Anirvan Banerji The good news is that the much-feared double-dip recession is not going to happen. That is the message from leading business…

Economy

Heckuva Job, Larry

Edward Harrison Oct 28, 2010

On Comedy Central, the joke was on President Obama Wednesday night. The president had come, on the eve of what will almost certainly be the loss of his governing majority, to plead his case before Jon Stewart, gatekeeper of the…

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Links: 2010-10-28

Edward Harrison Oct 28, 2010

The presence of an article in the links section at Credit Writedowns is not an endorsement of the views presented. However, it is a suggestion that the article is topical and worthy of your attention. If you would like to receive our links…

Political Economy

Currency tension will continue despite Geithner’s diplomacy

Edward Harrison Oct 28, 2010

This was my latest media appearance from last Friday. I spoke to Howard Green about the G-20 summit in Seoul with David Weidner of Market Watch. You can see some of my pre-meeting comments here. While I thought US Treasury Secretary…

Political Economy

German budget austerity requirements divide EU summit

Edward Harrison Oct 28, 2010

The Germans are planning to put forward a plan to change guidelines to the stability and growth pact (SGP) to give it more teeth. The sense in Berlin is that the SGP, which limits budget deficits to 3% and debt-to-GDP to 60%, has been…

Economy

US jobless claims fall to lowest in three months

Edward Harrison Oct 28, 2010

According to figures released by the US Department of Labor, US initial jobless claims dropped to 434,000 this past week, their lowest levels in over three months. Analysts had been expecting upwards of 450,000 claims where the numbers have…

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