Author: John Mason

First Warren Buffet and now Bill Gross, of Pacific Investment Management Company, have publically stated that buying United States Treasury securities is not a good bet. (See...

For the last 18 months or so, I have believed that one of the most important factors affecting the American (and world) economy would be a growing number of mergers and acquisitions. Individuals at Credit Suisse Group AG...

On August 27, 2010, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke gave the world the first news about QE2. (See my post, “Bernanke in the Hole”, http://seekingalpha.com/article/222704-bernanke-in-the-hole.)His explanation left something...

“Moody’s Investors Service, the ratings agency, said in a report last week that many states ‘are increasingly pushing down their problems to their local governments.’ The Moody’s report warned that...

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke just informed Congress that people were not anxious to buy homes.He commented that “there’s no demand for construction to build homes and so the construction industry is quite...

AT& T and T-Mobile. The strategic merger activity of 2011 and 2012 continues.As I have argued for a long time, the environment for a crucial restructuring of the economic world is right in front of us.There is lots of cash...

One of the clearest comments I have heard recently about the financial reform actions of Congress and the regulators is that those passing the new laws and establishing the new regulations completely ignored the fact that...

The good news is that the FDIC payments to those organizations and institutions buying failed banks during the present crisis are smaller than the regulatory officials anticipated. The FDIC has paid out $8.89 billion to...