Ed Harris is an entrepreneur, investment banker, and business leader with more than three decades of experience in finance, venture capital, and corporate management. He is the founder and CEO of Harris Northwest Advisors, a boutique investment banking firm based in Bellevue, Washington, that specializes in advising privately held companies with revenues between $10 million and $250 million on mergers, acquisitions, and strategic exits.
Ed earned his B.A. in Economics from Rutgers University and his M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia Business School. As a writer, Ed enjoys exploring the intersection of business, finance, and social issues, drawing on his experience from Wall Street to the boardroom to challenge conventional thinking and highlight lessons from the modern economy.
This guest commentary was written by Ed Harris, CEO of Harris Northwest Advisors and a Visiting Contributor at the Southwest Public Policy Institute. In his argument about APR, Patrick Brenner is wrong but inadvertently correct on a larger point he doesn’t address. An APR calculation is mathematically accurate. Most fixed-rate 30-year mortgages are priced similarly, […]
