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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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More on Byron Wien’s Ten Surprises for 2010

Edward Harrison Jan 4, 2010

Byron Wien was amazingly accurate last year in his economic predictions even though his annual list is an attempt to build a non-consensus list of likely outlier events. So, I was eager to see Byron Wien's 2010 surprises, which were…

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Byron Wien: Ten Surprises for 2010

Edward Harrison Jan 4, 2010

I will have some commentary on this in a future post or an updated version of this one. Update 1600 ET: you can see my commentary in the next post here. The Surprises of 2010 The United States economy grows at a stronger than expected…

Economy

ISM manufacturing index at highest since April 2006

Edward Harrison Jan 4, 2010

The December 2009 Manufacturing ISM Report On Business was released earlier today showing a reading of 55.9, the highest in nearly four years. This is the most recent of the many indicators demonstrating that the U.S. economy is in a…

News

Links: 2010-01-04

Edward Harrison Jan 4, 2010

Welcome to the working week, new decade version! Me? Still thinking it’s 2009, though. Just changed the date to 2010. Seesmic acquires Ping.fm - The Next Web Yahoo Can Relax a Little (But Just a Little)–This Year’s BoomTown…

Political Economy

The correlation between healthcare spending and life expectancy

Edward Harrison Jan 4, 2010

Hat tip FiveThirtyEight. once you remove the U.S., there's a strong correlation between spending and life expectancy, and this is super-clear from the scatterplot. For more information behind this chart, click the link below.…

Political Economy

Monopoly Economics in Washington

Edward Harrison Jan 4, 2010

Hat tip Prieur du Plessis. Source Chip Bok, 28 Dec 2009 - Comics.com

Political Economy

Asia tells the west to get off its high horse

Edward Harrison Jan 3, 2010

You kind of saw this coming didn’t you. Asians remember the Depression that began there a decade ago all too vividly. Many still see the West to blame because of the draconian economic policy solutions meted out by the IMF, including now-US…

News

News from around the web: 2010-01-03

Edward Harrison Jan 3, 2010

Peru Confirms 25-Year Sentence for Alberto Fujimori, AFP Says - Bloomberg.com BBC News - Historic Antarctica plane remains 'found' by expedition Islendinger vil ikke betale for bankkollaps | E24 ("Islanders do not want to…

News

Financial News: 2010-01-03

Edward Harrison Jan 3, 2010

I almost wrote the date as 2009 yet again. Sheesh. For those of you who took it easy over the weekend and haven’t read any CW material yet, welcome to the next decade. See the 160-story tower that awaits you in Dubai below. Must read A…

Political Economy

Volcker: ‘I wasn’t persuasive enough’ for Obama to heed my economic advice

Edward Harrison Jan 3, 2010

I don’t know quite what to make of the Paul Volcker interview published late last week in Business Week. In case you missed it, Business Week published a frank interview of former Federal Reserve Board chairman Paul Volcker with media…

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