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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

Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory

Edward Harrison Mar 1, 2010

Daniel Kahneman says a refusal to admit complexity leads people toward a simplistic view of their own self image. He sees a difference between our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" and how these two…

Economy

Can you get out of a debt crisis by piling on another layer of debt?

Edward Harrison Mar 1, 2010

That’s the question on everyone’s mind and the one Bill Gross of Pimco attempts to answer in this month’s Investment Outlook. He starts out defining the problem as a lack of aggregate demand – the Keynesian understanding of depression.…

Political Economy

The roots of the European sovereign debt crisis go back thirty years

Edward Harrison Mar 1, 2010

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a plan to bail out Greece to the tune of $41 billion is now being formulated by Germany and France. It might seem as if a bailout is inevitable and that the terms of such a bailout are the only…

News

Links: 2010-02-28 – CRE meltdown in DC, emigration from Ireland and more

Edward Harrison Feb 28, 2010

The last feature on the list of links below is on CRE in Washington D.C. where the economy is fairly robust. If you know anything about these properties, you would agree these are not poor properties at all. The problem with them is not…

Daily

The week in review at Credit Writedowns: 2010-02-27

Edward Harrison Feb 27, 2010

Most Read Is AIG the main CDS insurer for Greek government debt? Drawing the right lessons from an obscure tale of obscure interest rate swaps Beijing is not Washington’s banker EM Currencies Remain Vulnerable As Pessimism Returns…

News

Links: 2010-02-27 – IMF in Greece, New York in disrepair and more

Edward Harrison Feb 27, 2010

A parable about how one nation came to financial ruin. – By Charles Munger – Slate Magazine New York State of Disrepair – WSJ.com Liz Pulliam Weston: Broke? Calculate your debt ratios – MSN Money Federal Reserve talk belies likely…

Markets

Yamada: Ready for a bond bear market?

Edward Harrison Feb 27, 2010

Uber-technician Louise Yamada is now warning that the secular bear market in equities is likely to be joined by one in bonds as well. In the video below, she talks with Bloomberg’s Pimm Fox about her view that bond yields are going to…

Economy

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Edward Harrison 7783 posts 575 comments

Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory

Can you get out of a debt crisis by piling on another layer of debt?

The roots of the European sovereign debt crisis go back thirty years

Links: 2010-02-28 – CRE meltdown in DC, emigration from Ireland and more

The week in review at Credit Writedowns: 2010-02-27

Links: 2010-02-27 – IMF in Greece, New York in disrepair and more

Yamada: Ready for a bond bear market?

Nationwide: UK house prices fall 1.0%

Video: The Germans take on the Greeks

Montier: Was It All Just A Bad Dream? Or, Ten Lessons Not Learnt