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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.

Gold

European selloff highlights resumption of US treasury bear flattening

Edward Harrison Oct 23, 2018

This morning, US stock futures are pointing to triple-digit losses after declines in Europe and in Asia. And the European indices are at a one-year low. There are quite a number of proximate causes for the weakness. But the overriding fear,…

Daily

Using technology to phase out human workers

Edward Harrison Oct 22, 2018

I know I should be writing about Italy today since the country was downgraded Friday night to Baa3 by Moody's. That puts it one notch away from junk and potentially makes the country ineligible for quantitative easing, were it to come to…

Political Economy

EU expansion to 27 members altered the EU radically

Edward Harrison Oct 21, 2018

I've written two posts about the history of support for the EU. And I covered the ground through the EU-15 period when Austria, Finland, and Sweden entered the EU. Today, I want to continue the post series with the introduction of the next…

Daily

Greens have replaced the SPD in Germany and something Putin and Juncker appear to agree on

Edward Harrison Oct 19, 2018

Today's daily is a grab bag of topics that I have been thinking about over the past week. I have a backlog of stories from earlier in the week I missed. So let me add these into the mix today. But first up today is this chart from German…

Bronze

Italy is too big to fail

Edward Harrison Oct 19, 2018

A segment on the Dutch news program Nieuwsuur prompted this post. Earlier today, I was looking at 10-year yields and noticed Italy jumping to over 3.7%. As I write this, the yield is 3.713%. And that's up from a low of 1.633% in the past…

Economy

China’s doubling down on command-style economic governance as growth wanes

Edward Harrison Oct 19, 2018

The big news this morning is the slowing growth in China. The third quarter numbers showed the country growing at its slowest pace in a decade. And the questions now are whether this slowdown continues and what China does about it. This is…

Political Economy

The euro was always controversial: What Eurobarometers say about the EU’s legitimacy (part…

Edward Harrison Oct 19, 2018

So, yesterday I parsed the EU sentiment data from the EU's early expansion period. And what we saw was rising support for the EU right up until 1991. But after that time, support for the EU collapsed and has never recovered. I want to look…

Political Economy

What Eurobarometers say about the EU’s legitimacy (part one)

Edward Harrison Oct 18, 2018

Since 1974, the European Commission has published a twice-yearly comprehensive poll to gauge sentiment on various social and economic issues in the European Union. Today, I downloaded every one of these polls and have been busy parsing the…

Bronze

The disintegration of legitimacy in western democracies

Edward Harrison Oct 17, 2018

Today's daily post is going to be more of a theme post, largely because the news flow warrants it. I have at least three articles in mind, which were published over the last 24 hours that touch on the theme of a building illegitimacy in…

Gold

Lyft subscription plan is the future of ride hailing

Edward Harrison Oct 16, 2018

If one thinks of it as a car-replacement service, Lyft could now work as an effective replacement for driving to work or as a replacement for a park and ride commute for many people.

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