James Edmond

James Edmond (21 April 1859 – 21 March 1933) was a Scottish-Australian journalist and writer of short stories, and notable as an editor of The Bulletin.

Edmond took charge of the 'Wild-Cat' column in 1893, and, though he then had little knowledge of finance, quickly realised that in order to write about it intelligently, the necessary facts must be available.

He was also one of the first men to realise how dangerous over-borrowing abroad could be, and for a long period consistently fought against it in the columns of The Bulletin.

Edmond was more than a just writer on finance, he wrote humorous stories and sketches, leaders, dramatic criticism, paragraphs on all kinds of subjects and for some time a special column "The Brickbat slung by Titus Salt".

This was bad for the training of the staff and, as was inevitable in the circumstances, Edmond's health broke down while he was still in his mid-fifties.