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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.

Political Economy

Germany: First the penalties, then the European Monetary Fund

Edward Harrison Mar 24, 2010

Germany's finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble wants to save the euro but he doesn't seem to be very flexible about his negotiating tactics. He says Germany will support Greece if default is imminent, but they will receive nothing until then.…

Markets

Gross: American-style capitalism has reached a dead end but buy T-bills anyway

Edward Harrison Mar 24, 2010

I must say, Bill Gross is really sour on events in the United States these days. His monthly works are getting more and more populist. And it's interesting to see how he can segue from his introductory populist screed into a cogent…

Economy

Lehman chief warns of more big bank failures

Edward Harrison Mar 24, 2010

Lehman Head Bryan Marsal has warned that Wall Street had not learned its lesson in the credit crisis and that another megabank bankruptcy is likely. Marsal made the remarks while in Berlin for a bankruptcy conference in an interview with…

Markets

Ten ways to spot a bubble in China

Edward Harrison Mar 23, 2010

Edward Chancellor, author of the seminal book on financial speculation and manias “Devil Take The Hindmost,” is now turning his eyes to China. He sees a number of red flags which point to excess in China. Chancellor writes:…

News

Links: 2010-03-23 – Angela Merkel in the spotlight and more on China

Edward Harrison Mar 23, 2010

FiveThirtyEight: A Closer Look At Inflation Bob Herbert – An Absence of Class in the G.O.P. – NYTimes.com Leveraged Buyout Revival Seen in Default Swaps: Credit Markets – Bloomberg.com Rio Tinto blocked from attending China trial…

Economy

Lehman Scandal: Where’s the Follow Up?

Edward Harrison Mar 23, 2010

This is a post which originally appeared at New Deal 2.0 by Eliot Spitzer and Joshua Rosner. Eliot Spitzer is former governor of New York. He blogs for Slate.com. Joshua Rosner is managing director of an independent financial services…

Political Economy

The Eurozone is unworkable in its present state

Edward Harrison Mar 23, 2010

I am highlighting this March 2010 post because it best represents my view on the structural changes needed in the euro-zone. I suggest setting up a pre-funded European Harmonisation Fund that can get fiscal policy harmonised and help to…

Political Economy

Anticipating Eurozone collapse

Edward Harrison Mar 23, 2010

The Germans are pressing a hard line on all fronts of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe – not only with austerity measures for Greece but for a planned European Monetary Fund (EMF) as well. The most critical part of the German negotiating…

Economy

Where will all the new jobs come from?

Edward Harrison Mar 22, 2010

Consider this: Despite a rising population, non-farm payrolls in the United States are lower than they were a decade ago. The unemployment challenge is not just cyclical, it is secular. Sectors of the economy with a challenge include…

News

Links: 2010-03-22 – Hugh Hendry, Simon Johnson and Alan Greenspan

Edward Harrison Mar 22, 2010

MIT’s Johnson Says Too-Big-to-Fail Banks Will Spark New Crisis – Bloomberg.com Streit um Griechenland-Hilfe: Deutschland isoliert – n-tv.de New York Fed Warehousing Junk Loans On Its Books: Examiner's Report GMO's Edward Chancellor:…

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