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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

Plosser: The Fed must stop qualitative easing

Edward Harrison Oct 21, 2009

In January, Ben Bernanke gave a very important speech at the London School of Economics where he laid out the Federal Reserve’s strategy in fighting the forces of deflation and market illiquidity (see post with videos here). His was a…

Political Economy

PM Brown rejects BoE Head King’s call for breaking up big banks

Edward Harrison Oct 21, 2009

If our response focuses only on the symptoms rather than the underlying causes of the crisis, then we shall bequeath to future generations a serious risk of another crisis even worse than the one we have experienced. -Mervyn King,…

Economy

Ms. Watkins, why does Charlie have lit dynamite?

Edward Harrison Oct 21, 2009

You are a teacher at a local primary school. Each school day you and some of your colleagues watch over the children at the school playground to make sure all of the children follow the rules and keep their hands to themselves. Your role is…

Economy

Frontline – The Warning: Who Knew About the Looming Financial Crisis?

Edward Harrison Oct 20, 2009

Watch the hour-long retrospective which aired tonight on PBS’s Frontline. It should be very enlighteningregarding the seeds of the bubble and meltdown. It examines who the players in the 1990s and 2000s were, what their attitude to…

Markets

Short Sales in North County: “Feeding Frenzy” as banks pretend and extend

Edward Harrison Oct 20, 2009

Jim the Realtor is back with a bunch of foreclosures, REOs and short sales on the market in North County San Diego. Some of these places look pretty nice. In this particular video, the property is in Carmel Valley and on the…

Blogs

Credit Writedowns is now on Twitter

Edward Harrison Oct 20, 2009

I have actually been on Twitter for some time now. But I wanted to update all of you with some social networking features the site now has and ways you can get more out of the content. Today, I will just talk about Twitter. Twitter I…

Political Economy

Nationalized Citi Mexicana Redux

Edward Harrison Oct 20, 2009

Back in March when the US Government felt compelled to bail out out Citigroup, Tracy Alloway over at FT Alphaville noticed a curious thing – Citigroup had effectively been nationalized. No, they were not seized by government, but Citi was…

News

News from around the web: 2009-10-20

Edward Harrison Oct 20, 2009

Android 2.0 gets Facebook integration and a car mode With the 4G iPhone coming, will it be enough? FT.com - Apple leaps ahead with 47% profits surge No one's complaining about this, are they? RUMOR: Verizon and Apple Already…

Political Economy

Einhorn: Break up too big to fail financial institutions

Edward Harrison Oct 20, 2009

David Einhorn delivered a speech at the 2009 Value Investing Conference that is creating a lot of buzz in the blogosphere. He said a lot of interesting things about the investing and political climate. A surprising amount of it comes…

Business

Divorcing and re-marrying to collect a pension

Edward Harrison Oct 20, 2009

In my recent post on greed, I wrote about how for the last generation corporations have been trying to get out of as many of their expensive obligations to workers as they can reasonably get away with. The list of obligations includes…

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