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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

Barton Bigss on Charlie Rose

Edward Harrison
Charlie Rose sat down with Barton Biggs, the former Morgan Stanley strategist, a few days back to talk markets and finance. The video is below as is a link to a recent article by Biggs in Newsweek. Biggs is not a fan of propping up…
Economy

Will Mexico suffer contagion?

Edward Harrison
While everyone seems to be shedding assets, Citigroup included, BBVA seems to be doing relatively well. If they are as strong financially as they indicate despite Spain's crashing economy, antitrust concerns aside, Banamex would be a good…
Political Economy

Stuffing bondholders

Edward Harrison
Most ordinary Americans feel a certain sense of rightoues indignation about the helping hand the U.S. banking industry is receiving from government. This sense of aggrievement is only made worse by suggestions that governemnt is not only…
Economy

1931

Edward Harrison
This account bears remembering because we can see the 1929-1933 descent as a two-part episode, with the second part starting here. It should be noted that there were a lot of positive economic signs before the Creditanstalt ruined this.…
News

Links: 2009-03-11

Edward Harrison
Guest post: A few thoughts about the banking crisis response in the United States - naked capitalism (This is a submission I did over at Yves Smith's blog. I forgot to add it to the links originally.) Don't Fall for Citigroup's Fantasy…
Markets

Have commodity prices bottomed?

Edward Harrison
If you have been folowing the commodities market, you would have noticed that most commodities have been rallying of late.  This includes oil, silver, gold, base metals and agricultural commodities.  Oil has gone from the low 30s to…

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