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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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Relief rally as Eurozone liquidity issues fade; solvency and contagion still at issue

Edward Harrison May 10, 2010

As in 2008, when global financial institutions were under attack, we are now facing a solvency crisis. This time the issue is Eurozone sovereign governments. Make no bones about it, the EU's trillion dollar gambit has worked and a…

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Links: 2010-05-10 European Shock and Awe Edition

Edward Harrison May 10, 2010

Subscribe to Our News Feed If you would like to receive our links in real-time please follow me at @edwardnh or go to our site’s News Feed. What Makes a Successful Currency Union? | Prospects for Development Wall Street Faces Call…

Markets

60 Minutes profiles strategic defaults

Edward Harrison May 10, 2010

I still see this phenomenon as a major risk to US growth due to the credit writedowns associated with it. However, the vast majority of house price losses are behind us. If house prices double-dip as they appear to be doing now, the losses…

Happy Mother’s Day: Betty White on Saturday Night Live

Edward Harrison May 9, 2010

Lawrence Welk Cold Open with Betty White

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Links: 2010-05-09 BP Oil Spill

Edward Harrison May 9, 2010

If you would like to receive our links in real-time please follow me at @edwardnh or go to our site’s News Feed. Landtagswahl in NRW: SPD spekuliert auf Rot-Gruen | FTD.de BBC News - 'Pakistan Taliban' behind Times Square bomb plot…

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Links: 2010-05-08 Fat Fingers and FDIC Friday Four

Edward Harrison May 8, 2010

If you would like to receive our links in real-time please follow me at @edwardnh or go to our site’s News Feed. FT.com - Uncovering the true level of US and UK public pension liabilities Tattling for Dollars: The Ranks of IRS Tax…

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The week in review at Credit Writedowns: 2010-05-07

Edward Harrison May 7, 2010

Last week's most popular US GDP growth rate is unsustainable; recovery will fade What caused the crash? The market is crashing right now; Greece is Lehman 2.0 MMT: Hyperinflation in the USA The Age of The Trader…

Economy

The Euro: Beware of What You Wish For

Edward Harrison May 7, 2010

For all the seven long years since the signing of the Maastricht treaty started Europe on the road to that unified currency, critics have warned that the plan was an invitation to disaster. Indeed, the standard scenario for an EMU…

Political Economy

The Soft Depression in Germany and the Rise of Euro Populism

Edward Harrison May 7, 2010

This is the third in a series of posts on the origins of the Euro crisis. "The roots of the European sovereign debt crisis go back thirty years" and "How Belgian debt, Italian anarchy and Greek profligacy lead to economic…

Economy

Links: 2010-05-07 Jobs reports extremely bullish in North America

Edward Harrison May 7, 2010

The Employment Situation Survey was very bullish. We saw non-farm payrolls up 290,000 and a net upward revision of prior month of 121,000. Moreover, there was an over 230K improvement in both private sector jobs and job gains ex.…

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