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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

Bill Gross: Government intervention in markets will last

Edward Harrison May 4, 2009

Bill Gross, the founder of the world's largest bond fund, PIMCO, is out with his new monthly market commentary. His subject: government involvement in the world of finance and investment. Below is a little of what he had to say. I have…

Markets

Mobius: Emerging market stocks are breaking out

Edward Harrison May 4, 2009

For a moment forget that Mark Mobius is talking his own book. He suggests in the video below that we are in the early stages of a new bull market for emerging markets. He does not suggest that it will be off to the races from the word go,…

News

Links: 2009-05-04

Edward Harrison May 4, 2009

Chrysler's Capitalist Pansies? - Paul Kedrosky Laugh out loud funny post here about the current Sunday-night silliness emanating from certain over-heated quarters over whether the government was or was not mean to investors who…

Markets

Expert: get out of western sovereign bonds

Edward Harrison May 4, 2009

Martin Hennecke, a frequent guest on CNBC, is recommending that investors who have fled to cash and government bonds need to rethink that strategy. He sees inflation on the horizon and warns that western sovereign bonds will suffer as a…

Economy

The Germans get tough with the state banks

Edward Harrison May 4, 2009

Last week I wrote a post suggesting that the Germans were getting tired of bailing out their banks and had moved to more draconian solutions to 'fix' the banking sector. Nationalizing Hypo Real Estate this week will be the first move in…

Economy

Through a glass darkly: the economy and confirmation bias in the econoblogosphere

Edward Harrison May 3, 2009

For most of the last few years, I have been labeled a perma-bear, that is someone who looks at the situation from a reflexively skeptical glass half-empty bias. One only need peruse our archives to get that impression. In fact, that is…

News

Links: 2009-05-03

Edward Harrison May 3, 2009

Interfluidity :: Continuous bankruptcy Suggesting an in-arrears convertible cumulative preferred equity. Cumulative means that if the issuing firm has skipped some dividend payments, the firm is said to be "in arrears", and…

Blogs

New Finance Blog: New Deal 2.0

Edward Harrison May 2, 2009

This is a new, progressive economic policy blog from the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute that launched on April 29th. The effort is lead by Robert Johnson, former Chief Economist of the US Senate Banking Committee. With…

Business

The case of the dissident Chrysler bondholders

Edward Harrison May 2, 2009

Yesterday, I posted a video in which two auto experts argued that the dissident creditors were getting a raw deal (See "A discussion about Chrysler’s bankruptcy plan on Charlie Rose"). The crux of the problem is their belief that they were…

Economy

Warren Buffett: Wells passes my own stress test

Edward Harrison May 2, 2009

Warren Buffet speaks with CNBC in the lead up to the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting. He talks a bit about stress tests and Citigroup. When asked about Wells Fargo, he says he administers his own stress tests and that Wells passes "with…

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