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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.

Economy

E-voting machines on the Simpsons

Edward Harrison
You remember the furor in 2004 over the hackability of the Diebold voting machines? Well, that same worry is back in 2008 and apparently Homer Simpson has fallen prey. Watch the video. Hilarious. (hat tip Marshall Auerback). Related…
Markets

Forced liquidation

Edward Harrison
The recent movement in global markets has me scratching my head a bit. You have people dumping gold and the Swiss Franc in order to invest in the U.S. dollar and Treasury securities. Everyone says it is a flight to quality. I do not…
News

News round-up: 27 Oct 2008

Edward Harrison
The set-up for this morning is anything but good. We are looking at another ugly day as global equity markets have plummeted. We would be lucky to escape this with a 300-point loss like Friday.
Markets

Currency crisis is gathering storm

Edward Harrison
In the last few weeks, the currency market is where the action has been. We have witnessed massive moves in every major currency and in some not so major ones. To my mind, all of this is a prelude to some sort of currency crisis. This…
News

More links for 2008-10-24 [del.icio.us]

Edward Harrison
'I made a mistake,' admits Greenspan Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, said the credit crisis had exceeded anything he had imagined and admitted he was wrong to think that banks would protect themselves from financial…
Markets

Dollar strength is an illusion

Edward Harrison
I have felt for sometime that dollar strength is a counter-trend that has a sell-by date written all over it. You see, the Federal Reserve is ballooning its balance sheet like nobody's business as it tries to be the global lender of last…
Markets

Chart of the day: Japanese Yen

Edward Harrison
Although off its highs for the day, the Japanese Yen is still looking very strong against every major currency. Earlier, it pushed as high as 92 yen to the dollar. Jim Rogers was on Bloomberg saying it was headed much higher.

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