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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.

News

Links: 2009-02-11 – the City of London version

Edward Harrison Feb 11, 2009

Yesterday and today, the heads of British banking institutions face the music in Westminster before a live camera. Yesterday's proceedings were fairly dramatic as I suggested in my post HBOS and RBS get a right bollocking. There has been…

Business

McGraw Hill drops book critical of its own subsidiary

Edward Harrison Feb 11, 2009

McGraw Hill is one of the major book publishers in the United States. It also happens to own Standard & Poors, a well-known rating agency. Fellow econblogger Barry Ritholtz was due to release a book via McGraw Hill titled "Bailout…

Economy

Stephen Roach: Downturn in Asia less severe, but recovery later

Edward Harrison Feb 10, 2009

Morgan Stanley Asia head Stephen Roach believes that Asia will weather the economic storm with a less severe downturn than the West. However, as the economies are predominantly export-led, he also believes that the countries are followers,…

Monetary System

Some tidbits about stimulus, recovery, and the Great Depression

Edward Harrison Feb 10, 2009

Paul Kasriel of Northern Trust is one of the few economists to have warned about the present economic malaise. So his analysis of present events carries weight. In making recommendations about our future economic path, Kasriel leans heavily…

News

Links: 2009-02-10

Edward Harrison Feb 10, 2009

Report 44 — The Obama Watch (A new blog that I like) Geithner plan disappoints investors - Telegraph Bad debt leads to big loss at UBS - BBC News Bond market calls Fed's bluff as world falls apart - Ambrose Pritchard-Evans, Telegraph…

Clusterf#@k to the Poor House – The Death of Hope

Edward Harrison Feb 10, 2009

The hope of bipartisanship dies an early death with Barack Obama's stimulus bill.

Political Economy

Cognitive Regulatory Capture

Edward Harrison Feb 10, 2009

A condition of conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistency between one's duty as regulator and one's actions

Political Economy

Martin Wolf believes Obama’s bailout package will fail

Edward Harrison Feb 10, 2009

Martin Wolf of the Financial Times has issued a damning assessment of the Geithner bailout package. His main criticism is that Geithner's aims are the same narrow set of goals set out by the Bush Administration of working through this…

Political Economy

Treasury Secretary Geithner explains the bailout package

Edward Harrison Feb 10, 2009

I will dispense with the commentary and let you judge for yourself.

Political Economy

Public anger at Wall Street begins to boil over

Edward Harrison Feb 10, 2009

Caroline Baum has a good column today at Bloomberg.com regarding public anger in America. She correctly states that the American public is not just angry at Wall Street, but at what Wall Street represents in terms of special interests,…

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