Author: John Mason

Economic spokesperson for the Obama administration, Ben Bernanke, and the Federal Reserve System continue to underwrite “big”…Big Companies and Big Banks. The Federal Reserve has just released its survey of...

The United States budget deficit will reach $1.48 billion in the 2011 fiscal year, according to the Congressional Budget Office.The response: everyone seems to be pointing fingers at everyone else.The President, on Wednesday...

“Strategic vision of financial executives on how to generate economic performance while controlling risk is likely to become a differentiating factor, a determinant of not only success but of the very economic viability of...

Banking is changing. I have argued this case for a long time. The number of banks in the banking industry is declining. A year ago or so we had over 8,000 commercial banks in the banking industry and several thousand...

I can’t recommend highly enough the opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal this morning “The SEC’s Facebook Fiasco,” by Jonathan Macey....

The writing of new financial regulations required by the Dodd-Frank financial reform act passed last summer seems to be dragging. “Regulators have missed or postponed several deadlines to write rules needed to implement...

Ronald McKinnon writes in the Wall Street Journal this morning, “The U. S. is a sovereign country that has the right to follow its own monetary policy. By an accident of history, however, since 1945, it is also the center...

More and more it appears as if the banking system of the United States is bifurcating into two parts, the largest 25 banks and the rest. These designations, large and small, are used by the Federal Reserve System for the data...