Edward Harrison is a banking and finance specialist at the economic consultancy Global Macro Advisors focusing on global economics and corporate strategy. Previously, he was a Partner at the consultancy Lion Strategy Advisors, and worked in various consulting, strategy and M&A roles at Deutsche Bank, Bain Consulting, the Corporate Executive Board and Yahoo.

Mr. Harrison started his career as a diplomat in the Foreign Service. He speaks German, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish and French as well as English and can read a number of other European languages. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and completed his undergraduate studies with a degree in Economics from Dartmouth College.

Recent Blog Posts by Edward Harrison

• Iceland Upgrade Sure Makes Default Look Palatable February 20th, 2012
• The Eurozone Is Not Ready Politically for a Default February 20th, 2012
• Greece’s Extreme Parties Are Gaining Support February 17th, 2012
• The Political Economy of a Greek Default (and euro zone exit) February 15th, 2012
• How and Why Greece Will Leave the Eurozone February 13th, 2012
• On the Troika’s Coming Occupation of the Periphery January 27th, 2012
• Spanish Government Doubts It Can Achieve Deficit Target January 20th, 2012
• Münchau: We Are Fighting the Wrong Crisis January 19th, 2012
• Krugman, Tabarrok, Cowen and the Bond Vigilante Fallacy January 3rd, 2012
• My Comments on MMT’s Job Guarantee Idea January 3rd, 2012
• Footnote 2011: Being Cautiously Optimistic Was Right December 29th, 2011
• On the ECB’s Long-Term Refinancing Operation and 2012 Macro Ideas for Investors December 22nd, 2011
• Full Text: Letter from Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy on the European Debt Crisis December 8th, 2011
• Code Words and Dog Whistle Economics December 8th, 2011
• Full Text: Standard & Poor’s Puts Ratings on Eurozone Sovereigns on CreditWatch with Negative Implications December 6th, 2011
• Italian Minister Breaks Down in Tears Over Austerity Budget December 5th, 2011
• Stephen Roach on the IMF Bailout, Chinese Banks and US Consumers December 4th, 2011
• More on What I Think Will Happen in Europe December 2nd, 2011
• Likely Policy Path for European Sovereign Debt Crisis November 29th, 2011
• Sources: IMF to Offer Italy a 600 Billion Euro Bailout Via ECB Funding November 27th, 2011
• Foreign News: Eurobonds and Contagion to Poland and Slovenia November 25th, 2011
• What the German Bond Auction Disaster Means November 23rd, 2011
• Running Through Italian Unilateral Euro Zone Exit Scenarios November 22nd, 2011
• Le Pen: France Must Leave the Eurozone November 20th, 2011
• Chart of the Day: Definitive Guide to the European Debt Web November 18th, 2011
• Deflationary Crisis Responses November 17th, 2011
• Running Through Italian Default Scenarios November 16th, 2011
• Contagion: Default Probabilities Blow Out Right Across Europe November 15th, 2011
• Merkel: Change European Constitution for Greater Fiscal Integration by 2013 November 14th, 2011
• The Relevant Articles of the Lisbon Treaty for the Sovereign Debt Crisis November 10th, 2011
• Merkel: ‘The ECB Has a Clear Mandate, Stability of the Currency’ November 9th, 2011
• This Is Why People Are Buying Gold Now November 9th, 2011
• Italy’s Debt Woes and Germany’s Intransigence Lead to Depression November 8th, 2011
• Italy! Italy! Italy! November 7th, 2011
• Throw the Greeks Out of the Eurozone November 7th, 2011
• Why Investors Will Buy Italian Bonds After ECB Monetisation November 6th, 2011
• How Austerity in Europe Works November 3rd, 2011
• An Outline of Critical Events Affecting Greek Referendum November 3rd, 2011
• Sixty Percent of China’s Rich Want to Leave the Country November 3rd, 2011
• Is Greece Heading Off a Military Coup? November 2nd, 2011
• China PMI Drops to Lowest in 32 Months November 1st, 2011
• Greek Referendum Could Mean CDS Greek Default Trigger November 1st, 2011
• Full Text: European Union letter to the G20 on the Euro crisis October 31st, 2011
• What Do Sovereign CDS and Bond Markets Think of the Greece Deal? October 28th, 2011
• How the Latest Emergency Euro Summit Addresses the Sovereign Debt Crisis October 27th, 2011
• Chart of the Day: U.S. Income Growth 1979-2007 October 26th, 2011
• The Eurozone Is Coming Apart at the Seams Now, Redux October 25th, 2011
• Greece in Debtor’s Prison October 23rd, 2011
• Chart of the Day: Italian Bonds Back Over 6% October 20th, 2011
• On Government, Regulation, Over-Regulation and Free Markets October 20th, 2011
• A Year Later Everyone Is Catching on About Fed Policy and Net Interest Margins October 18th, 2011
• Chanos and Gross vs. Paulson and Bloomberg October 18th, 2011
• Saudi Arabia: When Surging Oil Demand Meets Limited Supply October 17th, 2011
• Chaney Says ‘Recession Has Already Started in Europe,’ Talks to Euro-TARP October 14th, 2011
• Chart of the Day: Greatest Credit Deterioration Focus – Belgium, Spanish Banking October 14th, 2011
• Dexia Bailout Forces Moody’s Downgrade of Belgian Regional Debt October 12th, 2011
• Juncker: It May Not Be Enough Even if Greece Defaults With 60 Percent Haircut October 11th, 2011
• George Soros: “People Don’t Realize That the System Has Actually Collapsed” October 10th, 2011
• Bruce Bartlett Wants the Fed to Target Nominal GDP October 9th, 2011
• Felix Zulauf: Expect More Market Turmoil Than in 2008 October 5th, 2011
• More on the S&P Bear Market and the Central Bank Liquidity Train October 4th, 2011
• China Will Retaliate if US Imposes Sanctions October 3rd, 2011
• On Greek Haircuts September 28th, 2011
• A Few Thoughts on Economic Nationalism September 27th, 2011
• S&P: More Bailouts Will Lead to Germany’s Eventual Downgrade September 26th, 2011
• Jim Chanos: China Has Tons of Contingent Debt Via State-Owned Enterprises September 21st, 2011
• The European Bank Run September 21st, 2011
• Chinese Shunning Trade with French Banks September 20th, 2011
• German Banks Need Recapitalization of 127 Billion: Report September 19th, 2011
• Why Didn’t the Fed Release a Statement on the Dollar Liquidity Bailout? September 16th, 2011
• Bianco on Earnings Volatility and Recession September 14th, 2011
• Austrian Government Fails in Vote to Increase Euro Bailout Fund September 14th, 2011
• Eurozone Default Is Not Synonymous with Breakup September 13th, 2011
• Germany Is Preparing for Greek Bankruptcy September 11th, 2011
• Why a Breakup of the Eurozone Is Likely September 8th, 2011
• The Eurozone Double Dip Is Almost Here September 8th, 2011
• Achuthan: “It’s Too Late” for Obama on Jobs August 30th, 2011
• What Is the Secret to Germany’s Economic Success? Part 2 August 16th, 2011
• Krugman on Modern Monetary Theory August 15th, 2011
• Grantham: European and American Policy Makers Are Clueless August 11th, 2011
• Spain, Italy, Belgium Yields Now Under Attack August 2nd, 2011
• Disastrous GDP Numbers Make Double Dip Scare Real July 29th, 2011
• Roach and Roubini: Chinese Have Lost Confidence in America’s ‘Dysfunctional Economic Stewardship’ July 27th, 2011
• The Sovereign Debt Crisis and Currency Sovereignty July 22nd, 2011
• Sources: Euro Bailout Package Must Be Doubled for Italy July 11th, 2011
• My Thoughts on the French Restructuring Plan for Greece June 29th, 2011
• Think Tank: China’s Assertiveness Could Lead to Armed Conflict in Asia June 28th, 2011
• On Central Banker Opposition to a Greek Restructuring June 16th, 2011
• What QE3 Could Look Like June 14th, 2011
• The Jobs Crisis Is Not Just About Demand June 13th, 2011
• Cash is King: Buy Volatility and Buy Liquidity June 8th, 2011
• Will China’s Bad Debt Problem Affect Employment? June 2nd, 2011
• China Losing Competitiveness May 16th, 2011
• The Irish Stress Tests and Euro Zone Options: Monetization, Default, or Break-Up March 31st, 2011
• Houses Most Overvalued in Australia and Hong Kong, Most Undervalued in Japan March 15th, 2011
• Cautiously Optimistic Into 2011 January 13th, 2011
• What Are U.S. Jobless Claims Telling Us About Recovery January 6th, 2011
• The Looming State Budget Crisis December 21st, 2010
• The Government Has a Printing Press to Produce U.S. Dollars at Essentially No Cost December 7th, 2010
• Quick Thoughts on the Irish Bailout November 22nd, 2010
• German Budget Austerity Requirements Divide EU Summit October 29th, 2010
• What I Didn’t Say on the BBC October 21st, 2010
• Brazil: “We Are in the Midst of an International Currency War” September 27th, 2010
• Jobless Claims Still Not Pointing to Imminent Double Dip Recession September 23rd, 2010
• Brazil Getting Serious About BRL September 22nd, 2010
• Is Brazil Overheating? July 27th, 2010
• Moody’s Cuts Portugal Credit Rating Two Notches to A+ July 13th, 2010
• More on Competitive Currency Devaluations June 24th, 2010
• Chart of the Day: Exposures to Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain June 17th, 2010
• Contagion Spreading Yet Further to Core Eurozone June 7th, 2010
• Manufacturing Sector Demonstrates Global Recovery June 3rd, 2010
• China: Time to Admit To, Then Douse, Our Inflation Fire May 20th, 2010
• Spain Is the Perfect Example of a Country that Never Should Have Joined the Eurozone May 17th, 2010
• Greek Bond Yields at 12-Year High, Contagion Increasing April 26th, 2010
• Rosenberg: Stocks 35% Overvalued April 22nd, 2010
• Pitchforks, Vampire Squids, and Simon Johnson’s Robespierre Moment April 20th, 2010
• The Politics of the Goldman Fraud Case April 19th, 2010
• JPMorgan Is Not Substantially Increasing Lending Anytime Soon April 15th, 2010
• The Origins of the Next Crisis April 13th, 2010
• Fitch Downgrades Greece to BBB- with a Negative Outlook April 9th, 2010
• Why the Fall in the Savings Rate Is Not Meaningless April 2nd, 2010
• Three Potential Explanations for the Continued Fall in U.S. Savings Rate March 31st, 2010
• Anticipating Eurozone Collapse March 23rd, 2010
• This Is the Problem with China’s Currency Peg March 19th, 2010
• Can External Pressure Precipitate Change in a Command Economy Like China? March 17th, 2010
• The Mindset Will Not Change; a Depressionary Relapse May Be Coming March 15th, 2010
• German Responsible for Stability and Growth Pact Wants to Bail Greece Out March 5th, 2010
• Ronald Reagan the Keynesian March 2nd, 2010
• New Home Sales Hit a Record Low February 24th, 2010
• The Swedish Banking Crisis Response or the Bailout Hustle? February 22nd, 2010
• The Dutch Join the Germans in Rejecting Bailout of Greece February 16th, 2010
• Chanos: “We’re Not Calling for an Impending Crash of China” February 4th, 2010
• GDP up 5.7%, Fastest Rate Since 2003 January 31st, 2010
• Bailouts: Catching a Falling Knife January 25th, 2010
• Did Brown’s Win Spark Obama’s War on Wall Street? January 22nd, 2010
• Grading Obama’s Economic Policy after One Year January 20th, 2010
• The Chinese Bubble Economy January 11th, 2010
• Pension Disaster Makes States and Cities into Financial Basket Cases January 5th, 2010
• Asia Tells the West to Get Off its High Horse January 4th, 2010
• Why Economists Failed to Anticipate the Financial Crisis January 3rd, 2010
• What Happened to the Fiscal Stimulus Multiplier December 29th, 2009
• Double Dip Recession and the Perverse Math of GDP Reporting December 28th, 2009
• Moving Away from Stimulus Happy Talk to Focus on Malinvestment December 21st, 2009
• Bank Collapse in Austria Brings Debt in Eastern Europe Center Stage December 15th, 2009
• Obama and the Fat Cat Bankers December 14th, 2009
• Greece Risks Financial Armageddon While Ireland Makes Cuts December 13th, 2009
• Matt Taibbi: Obama’s Big Sellout December 11th, 2009
• Buiter: “It’s Five Minutes to Midnight for Greece” December 9th, 2009
• Japan’s Growth Embarrassingly Revised Down by 3.5% December 9th, 2009
• The Drop in Unemployment is Give Back from the Prior Month December 7th, 2009
• Reaching for Yield in the Post-TARP Era December 4th, 2009
• Quantitative Easing is Not the Cure to What Ails Europe December 3rd, 2009
• On the Sovereign Debt Crisis and the Debt Servicing Cost Mentality December 1st, 2009
• The Bust in Dubai and Exogenous Shocks November 29th, 2009
• British Regulators Disclose Terms of Emergency Aid During Panic of 2008 November 24th, 2009
• GM’s Phony Taxpayer Repayment November 23rd, 2009
• Gross Isn’t Buying Corporates, High Yield or Equities Even with Zero Rates November 20th, 2009
• Obama: Debt Could Cause a Double Dip Recession November 18th, 2009
• News from 17 November 1930: “We Face a Winter of Hunger and Distress” November 18th, 2009
• China Slams U.S. for Inflating Global Asset Prices Via Carry Trade November 15th, 2009
• Parallels Between US and Japanese Economies November 12th, 2009
• If the Fed is Looking to Inflate Away Problems, What Should Asia Do? November 11th, 2009
• Unemployment Rate Illusion November 11th, 2009
• Trouble in Ireland as Fitch Cuts Debt Two Notches to AA- and Deficits Soar November 4th, 2009
• Wood Warns of Correction, Says “Key Variable in the West is Government Policy” November 3rd, 2009
• Bullish Data, Recoveries, Crashes and the Psychology of Forecasting Redux November 2nd, 2009
• Jeremy Grantham: The Market is 25% Overvalued; 15% Correction Coming October 27th, 2009
• Richard Berstein: Once a Huge Market Bear, Now a Bull October 25th, 2009
• If the UK Economy is Still in Recession, why are London House Prices Hitting New Records? October 23rd, 2009
• Plosser: The Fed Must Stop Qualitative Easing October 21st, 2009
• US Angling to get Chinese to Revalue Renminbi October 16th, 2009
• Latvia – the Insanity Continues October 12th, 2009
• Marc Faber: “Monetary Policy in the United States will stay Expansionary” October 5th, 2009
• Unemployment Numbers Still Point to Partial Recovery October 2nd, 2009
• Federal Reserve’s Fisher Says Tightening will be Aggressive September 30th, 2009
• Moody’s: Iceland, Latvia and Hungary in “Fragile Stabilization” September 23rd, 2009
• Bill Gross: Sell Equities and Buy Treasuries September 22nd, 2009
• Bloomberg News is still after the Fed for more disclosure September 21st, 2009
• Tariffs: Other Industries May Line Up for Sanctions Against China September 15th, 2009
• Is Economic Boom around the Corner? September 14th, 2009
• Greenspan: Financial Crisis ‘Will Happen Again’ September 9th, 2009
• Bernstein: America “Practically Invites Another Catastrophe” September 8th, 2009
• China to Diversify out of U.S. Dollars September 6th, 2009
• Sheila Bair and the Case Against a Super-Regulator September 4th, 2009
• Stephen Roach is Talking Double Dip Again September 1st, 2009
• Bank Leverage: Forever Blowing Bubbles Part Two August 31st, 2009
• Unemployment Claims Falling Faster than in Half of Past Recessions August 28th, 2009
• China Cutting Overcapacity August 27th, 2009
• Getting Bearish Again August 24th, 2009
• Existing Home Sales Add to the Parade of Bullish Data August 21st, 2009
• China Cuts Holding of U.S. Treasury Securities August 19th, 2009
• Weak Consumer Spending Will Last for Years August 17th, 2009
• More Trouble in the Baltics as S&P Downgrades August 11th, 2009
• The Absurdities of ‘Buy American’ August 7th, 2009
• Stephen Roach Sees a W-shaped Recovery for China August 5th, 2009
• What Does a Double Dip Recession Look Like? August 4th, 2009
• Marc Faber: China’s Numbers are Fake July 31st, 2009
• Chinese Officials Warn Banks About Reckless Lending July 27th, 2009
• Spain: Bleak forecast puts unemployment at 22% in 2010 July 24th, 2009
• Obama and Health Care: Wasting Political Capital July 22nd, 2009