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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: 2010-10-23

Edward Harrison Oct 23, 2010

Rosenberg: Vincent Fernando Is Wrong, The ECRI Did Predict That The Economy Would Suck Why the Fed is popular in Ecuador | beyondbrics | FT.com America’s Top 25 Foreclosure Banks - Deal Journal - WSJ Banker höjer bolåneräntor…

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Links: 2010-10-22

Edward Harrison Oct 22, 2010

Finally We Find Out How Ray Dalio's Bridgewater Is Making Billions More Than Every Other Hedge Fund This Year Frankly you are frightening people | afoe | A Fistful of Euros | European Opinion YouTube - Murdoch's BSkyB Bid May…

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Less Policy Advocacy and More Policy Forecasting at Credit Writedowns

Edward Harrison Oct 22, 2010

Blogs in the econoblogosphere are heavy on economic policy advocacy. Ever since the heyday of the US and European housing bubble, the majority of bloggers in the space who are unaffiliated with media sources have been recommending policy…

Political Economy

Timothy Geithner’s Letter to the G20 Finance Ministers

Edward Harrison Oct 22, 2010

I will be on BNN today at 12 Noon ET talking about the G20 amongst other topics, so I wanted to highlight this issue. Here's the text first (with added bolding) and then a few comments: First, G20 countries should commit to undertake…

Political Economy

If you print a trillion, I’ll print a trillion – and other instances of behavior leading…

Edward Harrison Oct 22, 2010

I didn't make this title up, but it's so clever I wish I had. Andy Xie, the Former Morgan Stanley Asia economist used this as the sub-header in a column in today's Caixin editorial. Xie doesn't buy the G-20 rhetoric that all is fine in the…

Economy

Do Most Members of the US Congress Deserve Re-Election?

Edward Harrison Oct 22, 2010

I thought this chart on the upcoming US midterm elections was interesting because independents are tracking Republicans very closely while Democrats are living in a different world regarding Congress. Here is what Gallup says:…

Markets

Chart of the Day: Homes in Australia and Hong Kong overvalued, in Japan and Germany undervalued

Edward Harrison Oct 22, 2010

This time last year, The Economist’s survey of global house prices was a sea of negative numbers. That was then. Of the 20 markets tracked in our latest survey, only four still posted year-on-year declines and only Ireland’s property…

Markets

Chris Whalen: US Foreclosure Crisis A ‘Cancer’

Edward Harrison Oct 22, 2010

Chris sees the foreclosure crisis developing into a drip, drip of foreclosed property, unpaid property taxes, and loan losses. In his view, the Obama Administration is in a similar position to the Hoover Administration during the…

Economy

An update on asymmetric information and corporate governance in bank bailouts

Edward Harrison Oct 21, 2010

Last June I wrote a post on the topic of corporate governance that pointed to one of only two outcomes as the likely result of the bank bailouts. Outcome number one was bank prudence and low credit growth in the face of uncertainty. Outcome…

Political Economy

Video: Britain’s Austerity Budget

Edward Harrison Oct 21, 2010

Below is a good comprehensive video highlighting the spending review outlined by the Chancellor George Osborne yesterday in the House of Commons. See relevant articles on this in the links. Here is an unedited version of Mr Osborne's…

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