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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.

Markets

Case-Shiller: Price increases in 14 of 20 markets

Edward Harrison Jul 28, 2009

The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices for May 2009 were released today and the data showed a marked contrast to previous months. Fully 14 of 20 markets showed an increase in home prices in that month, making it the first time since…

Markets

Paul Tudor Jones: Trader – Flashback to 1987

Edward Harrison Jul 28, 2009

Update: These clips have sadly been removed from YouTube. Clips from the 1987 PBS Film called Trader featuring famed investor Paul Tudor Jones are catching everyone’s imagination all of a sudden. Is it that we are all secretly…

News

News from around the web: 2009-07-28

Edward Harrison Jul 28, 2009

msnbc.com:Study: Texting drivers 23 times more likely to crash Don't do it! Google Sells Stake in AOL, Loses $717 Million Au pair lockar i sämre tider - DN.se Swedish article. Everyone wants to be an Au Pair now in this downturn.…

Political Economy

Iceland fast tracked for EU membership

Edward Harrison Jul 27, 2009

From the FT. Iceland’s bid to join the European Union received a boost on Monday when the 27-nation bloc’s foreign ministers agreed without delay to ask the European Commission for its opinion. The swift decision means that Iceland,…

Business

Folks trade down and shift to house parties to get a buzz

Edward Harrison Jul 27, 2009

Alcohol used to seen as a recession-proof good. This downturn is changing that thinking as evidence of cutbacks in spending, consumption, and on-premise drinking abound. Back in the Spring of 2008, Nielsen conducted a bunch of surveys…

Markets

Jeremy Grantham: Overheating in China, speculative rallies and fair value

Edward Harrison Jul 27, 2009

Jeremy Grantham is out again with a very important investment strategy piece entitled “Boring Fair Price!” He leads off by talking about how markets went from extremely overvalued a year ago to cheap back to a state which he considers fair…

Economy

Chinese officials warn banks about reckless lending

Edward Harrison Jul 27, 2009

In late June, I posted two items China’s present growth story is built on malinvestment and Chinese stock market bubble inflating, on the building bubble in Chinese lending and asset markets. The crux of the posts was that China, in its…

News

News from around the web: 2009-07-27

Edward Harrison Jul 27, 2009

The Sector Financial Balances Model of Aggregate Demand—Revised - Scott Fullwiler A great but dense analysis of the 1990s expansion and the present fiscal crisis Hotter weather fed growth of Incan empire - New Scientist Incan and…

Markets

How snap judgment leads to poor investing

Edward Harrison Jul 26, 2009

We’re not really hard wired for making money in the markets. We use a lot of gut instincts, heuristics and plain illogic in making decisions. The result is sub-optimal investment performance. This is the nothing new as the field of…

Economy

Iceland and the wonders of competitive currency devaluation

Edward Harrison Jul 26, 2009

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has a good piece on Iceland out today at the Telegraph. The main point of his article is that Iceland is emerging from crisis and depression in a relatively healthy state due to a fifty percent currency…

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