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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

Wells Fargo to buy Wachovia

Edward Harrison
The deal everyone first expected to happen is now likely to proceed. Wells Fargo is set to buy Wachovia. Earlier this week, we heard that Wachovia was to be acquired by Citigroup, the beleaguered corporate behemoth that has written down…
Economy

Payrolls fall by 159,000 in U.S.

Edward Harrison
The unemployment data came out for the month of September 2008 in the U.S. Payrolls fell by 159,000, but the unemployment rate remained the same at 6.1%. The data are consistent with recent weekly unemployment claims data, which point to…
News

News round-up: 2 Oct 2008

Edward Harrison
With the Economic Patriot Act past the Senate - including hundreds of billions in pork barrel - sweeteners, it's time to focus in a little on politics. I'll lead off the round-up there, trying to keep it fair despite my obvious…

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