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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: 2010-04-24 Failure Friday Recap

Edward Harrison
If you would like to receive our links in real-time please follow me at @edwardnh or go to our site’s News Feed page. Going forward I will try to add foreign-language links as many readers are from abroad. Please send me links via the…
Markets

Playing with Fire

Edward Harrison
It’s spring, and this spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of speculation. The Fed’s promises look good and, as long as you’re not a small business, you can borrow to invest or speculate at no cost. The market has had a…
Economy

Thinking about Creditanstalt today

Edward Harrison
The news about Greece's bailout has me thinking a lot about Creditanstalt, the Austrian bank which collapsed in 1931. This account bears remembering because we should see the 1929-1933 descent as a two-part episode, with the second part…

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