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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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Back to the Fed

Edward Harrison Nov 8, 2018

The midterm election is over. So we can go back to worrying about the Fed! I ended yesterday's political economy piece saying: My sense, here, is that a divided Congress means we are in a ride it out period economically. There are no more…

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How far is Trump willing to go?

Edward Harrison Nov 8, 2018

Let me run something by you. I was thinking about the economic implications of the US midterm election this morning when I happened across various accounts about Donald Trump's press conference yesterday. A lot of the focus was on his…

Political Economy

US midterms post-mortem: A divided congress for a divided America

Edward Harrison Nov 7, 2018

The US midterm elections last night saw the biggest turnout for a midterm in at least half a century because voter enthusiasm was high. But it was high because the United States is very polarized right now about the job performance of…

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As we head to the mid-terms, what about the economy?

Edward Harrison Nov 5, 2018

There isn't a lot of economic news out today, so let me focus today's piece a bit on the economic and social messaging ahead of the US midterm elections. What about the economy? I was in the car just now, listening to the radio, when a…

Markets

A quick note about the bond market

Edward Harrison Nov 2, 2018

I don't have a daily post for you today. So, in lieu of a daily, I wanted to make some more general comments about interest rates that I have been making in my market commentary pieces. The accelerated hike timetable In February, I wrote a…

Gold

The jobs number was great, but it’s all about the Fed now

Edward Harrison Nov 2, 2018

This morning, I gave you an initial reaction to the jobs number, saying: A bad number won’t change the Fed’s forward guidance because the Fed has a tightening bias. But that bias means that a good number could tip us toward four rate hikes…

Gold

Forget about $100 oil and disregard the non-farm number too. Watch housing

Edward Harrison Nov 2, 2018

No more oil black swan Remember Al Arabiya channel’s General Manager Turki Aldakhil warning that imposing sanctions on, Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter could spark global economic disaster? I wrote about it when the Jamal…

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More on domestic ‘unilateralism’

Edward Harrison Nov 1, 2018

Birthright citizenship Yesterday, I wrote about what unilateralism looks like on the domestic front. And in many ways, it's similar to international unilateralism. The guiding principle is to prematurely forgo compromise and take a stance,…

Gold

Hanging on Apple’s earnings as the stock market ticks up

Edward Harrison Oct 31, 2018

In contrast to the last month, it was a good day for the markets today. So I want to do a mini-recap. All eyes on Apple First up: Apple is slated to report tomorrow afternoon after the closing bell. Expectations for their earnings report…

Political Economy

A quick note on how ‘unilateralism’ works domestically

Edward Harrison Oct 31, 2018

If you look up the word 'unilateralism', you would see it defined as "the process of acting, reaching a decision, or espousing a principle unilaterally." And we often hear of the US choosing to act using unilateralism or multilateralism on…

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