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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

Chart of the day: Buy and Hold?

Edward Harrison
Remember when you used to hear pundits say "'Buy and Hold,' that's the ticket to shareholder wealth?" Is that really true? I have put this thesis to the test over a number of years and it just doesn't hold water. Bear markets are always…
News

News Round-Up: 03 June 2008

Edward Harrison
Financial News Soros: Oil Is a Bubble, But Crash Not Imminent Toll Brothers (TOL): Another Lousy Quarter, But At Least Bob Toll Stopped Blaming Media Merrill's Rosenberg: Stagflation Talk is "Utter Nonsense"…
Economy

The Mean Season

Edward Harrison
John Mauldin is an economic pundit I have been following for a number of years. He not only writes a weekly newsletter that is very informative but he also has many guest writers of equal note. Yesterday, he had Michael Levitt of HCM…
Economy

Is Lehman the next Bear Stearns?

Edward Harrison
The Globe & Mail is reporting that Lehman Brothers might have to go back to the capital raising trough again in order to shore up a leveraged and risky balance sheet. In the face of yesterday's credit downgrade by S&P, this sounds…
Monetary System

De-leveraging

Edward Harrison
The term deleveraging is one bandied about a lot in the press recently. But, what does it actually mean? De-leveraging is the process by which financial institutions and investors reduce the relative size of their assets to equity ratio.…
News

News Round-Up: 02 June 2008

Edward Harrison
Has Oil Production Reached a 'De Facto' Peak? Read It Here First: States' Impact on Economy States and Cities Impact On GDP Taleb's Harsh Assessment of Bankers, Economists, and the Fed Housing Woes Hit Affluent Middle-Class…
Economy

S&P cuts ratings of big U.S. banks

Edward Harrison
This just in from the Globe & Mail via Reuters:Standard & Poor's in a sweeping move Monday that rocked markets cut ratings on a number of major U.S. securities firms including Lehman Brothers Inc. and said outlooks on the large U.S.…
Markets

Chart of the day: Case-Shiller 2005

Edward Harrison
Question: Could one see a bubble in housing back in 2005 when house prices were still rising? Well, to answer that question, I took the S&P/Case-Shiller Composite 10 Index and mapped it the rate of inflation. See, Robert Shiller, one…

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