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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.

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Links: 2008-11-05

Edward Harrison
Today was a very exciting today in politics as well as in the markets. We are living in a time to remember, like nothing we have seen in our lifetime. The question for us remains "what does the future hold?" I would like to look on the…
Economy

Writedown News: 5 Nov 2008

Edward Harrison
This past week I have been particularly distracted by the political headlines in the run-up to the U.S. Presidential election, so I apologize if I have missed a few stories in the financial press.The writedowns do continue unabated and we…
Markets

Toronto house prices in free fall

Edward Harrison
Canada has been one of the last housing bubble markets to crack. But, crack it has. The Toronto Real Estate Board reported that house prices crashed 13% from $434,022 on average last October to $376,896 this past October. With job losses…
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Links: 2008-11-03 [del.icio.us]

Edward Harrison
Today, we prepare for an election in the U.S.. Markets look to be off their lows and probably won't retest for some time. Yesterday was a very good day overseas as foreign markets seem to be outpacing the U.S. markets both in nominal…

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