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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.

Markets

Meredith Whitney Comments on Housing Double Dip

Edward Harrison Jun 21, 2010

Meredith Whitney was a guest host on CNBC at 8AM ET talking about an anticipated housing double dip. The videos are below. A few comments first. Whitney was late to the recovery party in 2009 in my view. But I found the recent Rip…

Business

Portrait of the anonymous online poster

Edward Harrison Jun 21, 2010

Check out the related article at the Globe below. Where are the gals, pray tell? Hat tip Tracy Alloway Source: Inside the mind of the anonymous online poster - Boston Globe

Economy

Lakshman Achuthan talking credit growth and recovery on Squawk Box

Edward Harrison Jun 21, 2010

This morning ECRI's Lakshman Achuthan was talking about the recovery on CNBC. His take is that the recent slowdown in GDP growth is normal for the recessions since before World War II so far. If we dip even more from here, we have trouble.…

Daily

The Stimulants and the Austerians and the War on Double Dips

Edward Harrison Jun 20, 2010

This week I have decided to do the weekly review both as a links post and in narrative form. I have already posted the links of the most-read articles (see them here). In this weekly review narrative, I want to discuss the…

Daily

Most-read at Credit Writedowns for week ending 2010-06-20

Edward Harrison Jun 20, 2010

This week I am going to run the week in review posts both in links and narrative form. Here is the links version. The narrative version is up next. The Week’s Most Popular Ghost Town Detroit PIMCO on British National Solvency…

News

Nationalizing The US Mortgage Problem With Fannie and Freddie And Other Links

Edward Harrison Jun 20, 2010

Fannie and Freddie Cost of Fannie And Freddie Keeps Rising - NYTimes.com Related Posts May 2010: Banks Making Shed Loads But Fannie And Freddie May Be “Losing Money as a Matter of Policy” Jan 2010: Manipulating mortgages Sep…

Markets

Gartman: Gold is Good but Euro is Doomed

Edward Harrison Jun 20, 2010

Dennis Gartman made some gold-bullish but euro-bearish comments on Bloomberg on Friday. He sees the play in gold as less about fear and more about reserves, specifically the euro. He says that central banks in China or Indonesia are going…

News

On how Anadarko is distancing itself from BP and other links

Edward Harrison Jun 19, 2010

Link of the day Anadarko Says BP Should Pay for Oil Spill After Being Reckless - Bloomberg.com The Usual Fare Wall Street Reform Could Cost Goldman Sachs Billions - Huffington Post The Economist Off the Deep End on BP and…

Political Economy

Federal largesse was countered by state and local cutbacks

Edward Harrison Jun 19, 2010

In looking back on the efficacy of stimulus in the United States, Ezra Klein has a few thoughts in the Washington Post's "You've seen the stimulus. Now, meet the anti-stimulus." A multiple choice question for you: Did the…

Economy

ECRI Weekly Leading Index falls further into negative territory

Edward Harrison Jun 18, 2010

Growth in the ECRI weekly leading index fell further into negative territory. The growth rate for the week of June 11 weakened to -5.7%, down from -3.7% in the previous week, which had been the first negative reading in almost a…

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