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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

How much is gold trading for?

Edward Harrison
In the clip below Mark Dice tells people that he will give them a one ounce Gold coin for free if they can guess how much it’s worth. To be fair he gives them 25% leeway in their guess. How do you think they did?  P.S. - the answer is…
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Tiger Woods on SNL

Edward Harrison
Wolf Blitzer presents a series of stories about accidents suffered by Tiger Woods. It becomes clear that the accidents are actually attacks made by his irate wife, Elin Nordegren.
Political Economy

Barack Obama gets it

Edward Harrison
This quote from President Obama comes via Brad DeLong: We've got a long- term structural deficit that is primarily being driven by health care costs, and our long-term entitlement programs. All right? So that's the baseline. Now, if…
Economy

Inventories are now rising

Edward Harrison
The Census Bureau came out this morning with a report on “Manufacturer’s Shipments, Inventories and Orders” for October. The report was bullish as it showed new orders for manufactured goods rising for the sixth time in seven months. But,…

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